Investigating the Attitudes of Students towards Educational Counseling Centers

Educational consultation is an interaction of a consultant with one or more students. Actually, the purpose of the educational consultation is to help students to solve the problems, which are related to their educational performance, thinking disorders, emotional pain and suffering or behavioral problems.
This descriptive survey study was conducted on 120 students studying at the School of Nursing and Midwifery of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2014. Data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire included demographic characteristics and an assessment questionnaire for evaluating student's attitude dimensions in three areas of behavioral, emotional and recognition. The validity and reliability of the questionaire were confirmed and then the collected data were analyzed using Chi-square and independent t-testwith the SPSS 16 software.
The results of this study showed that students had a positive attitude towards the behavioral, emotional and recognition areas. So the attitude of these students towards educational counseling centers was favorable (α = 0.01).
The findings of the present study show the positive attitudes of students towards educational consultation. This positive attitude can be used to improve the educational status of students.