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dc.contributor.advisorTalmage, Grant L.-
dc.contributor.advisorKorporaal, Charmaine Maria-
dc.contributor.authorRieder, Ryanen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-10T13:28:27Z
dc.date.available2011-03-31T22:20:05Z
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.other325678-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10321/500-
dc.descriptionDissertation submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for a Masters Degree in Technology: Chiropractic, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2010.en_US
dc.description.abstractBackground: The aim of this study was to determine the attitudes of Chiropractic students towards research at Durban University of Technology (DUT). The Chiropractic profession has made significant progress with regard to the production of high quality and clinically relevant research (Newell and Cunliffe, 2003; Hawk et al, 2008) and the continuation of this research effort will be the responsibility of the graduates that constitute the future profession (Newell and Cunliffe, 2003). Furthermore Cull, Yudkowsky, Schonfeld, Berkowitz and Pan (2003) state that the greatest predictor of this is a positive attitude, therefore it is essential to establish the present attitudes amongst the students. Method: The study was a quantitative questionnaire based, self administered, attitudinal survey. The sample group included all the Chiropractic students registered at DUT (n=185). Results: There was a response rate of 74,59%. The results indicated that on average students thought that the research subjects and courses taught at DUT were not interesting and that they did not adequately prepare them to perform research. The majority of the students felt that the research process was completely vague to them and that they felt insecure about their knowledge of research methodology. It was evident that students thought that DUT staff members placed a great emphasis on research and that they were easy to approach with regards to research. The area of greatest concern was that although students thought that the student researcher relationship was of great importance, they indicated that it was difficult to find a supervisor and they also indicated that inadequate supervision had delayed their research progression. For the most part students thought that research was important and they enjoyed listening to and reading research. However, only slightly positive scores were recorded when students were asked if they wanted to do research in the future, as they felt it was difficult and time consuming. Conclusion: Many factors were significantly associated with positive attitudes towards research at DUT and the strongest correlation between scales was between the importance of research and positive feelings towards research (r=0.713). Most students felt research was important and that it made them more knowledgeable however, if given the choice they would study at an institute where research was not mandatory.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipDurban University of Technologyen_US
dc.format.extent205 pen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectChiropractic studenten_US
dc.subjectResearchen_US
dc.subjectAttitudeen_US
dc.subjectChiropracticen_US
dc.subjectChiropractic--Researchen_US
dc.subjectCollege students--Attitudesen_US
dc.subjectSocial sciences--Researchen_US
dc.subjectResearch--Methodologyen_US
dc.titleThe attitudes of chiropractic students towards research at Durban University of Technologyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.dut-rims.pubnumDUT-000395en_US
dc.description.levelMen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.51415/10321/500-
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