A survey of factors affecting on decreased desire to continue education on undergraduate students in Ahvaz Jondishapur University of Medical Sciences (2011)

The student's academic achievement is one of the most important indicators for evaluation the efficiency of higher education system. One of the issues raised in the student's academic achievement is study of reasons for decreased desire to continue education. The aim of this study was survey of factors affecting on decreased desire to continue education of undergraduate students. This study was observational and cross-sectional in nature. The study was conducted in the academic year of 2011-2012. The population of the study consisted of all students in final year of BS degree in School of Allied Health Sciences, Ahvaz Jondishapur University of Medical Sciences. The data collection instrument was a questionnaire, which validity and reliability was confirmed. Data were analyzed by SPSS (version 15) using descriptive statistics. Among 276 students were studied 56 case (20.3 percent) had no desire to continue education. The highest number was related to the radiotherapy student (30.4 percent) and lowest number was related to the anesthesia student (9.1percent).Study of different reasons for decreased desire to continue education showed the most important reason was no effect on future employment and the labor market (mean 2.8) and Family problems (mean1.9) were mentioned as the less important reasons. Overall, it can be concluded that except the reason related to decreasing teachers and department encouragement, other mentioned reasons were effective to decrease desire to continue education was derived of the structure of higher education system and they were less relevant to the performance of departments.