TY - JOUR JF - IJME JO - Iranian Journal of Medical Education VL - 12 IS - 10 PY - 2013 Y1 - 2013/1/01 TI - A Prediction Model for Academic Performance among Students of Guilan University of Medical Sciences: Dimensions of Quality of Life, Internet Use, and Attitude toward Addiction TT - الگوی پیش‌بینی عملکرد تحصیلی براساس ابعاد کیفیت زندگی، استفاده از اینترنت و نگرش نسبت به اعتیاد در دانشجویان دانشگاه علوم پزشکی گیلان N2 - Introduction: Academic performance is not a univalent construct hence planning for its promotion among university students necessitates vast educational emprises. This study addresses factors such as quality of life, the students' use of internet, and their attitudes toward addiction and drugs which potentially play a role in academic performance of students, and represents a model. Methods: In a cross sectional study, consecutive sampling was performed on 106 students of Guilan University of Medical Science in 2010-2011 academic years. Every student answered a Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), attitude measurement questionnaire toward addiction, and the time dedicated to internet weekly. The last attained average grade of students was considered as an index for their academic performance. Data was analyzed using independent t-test, Pearson correlation and point biserial coefficient and multiple regressions (with Enter method). Results: Findings showed that these supposed factors totally explain 34% of shared variance of academic performance (P SP - 731 EP - 742 AU - Rezaei, Sajjad AU - Kajbaf, Mohammad bagher AU - Mousavi, Seyyed Valiallah AU - Mousavi, Seyyed Heshmatallah AD - KW - Academic performance KW - quality of life KW - internet use KW - attitude toward addiction KW - SF-36 questionnaire UR - http://ijme.mui.ac.ir/article-1-2100-en.html ER -