Lack of pocket money impacts Ethiopian undergraduate health science students learning activities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The cost of university presents various challenges with regards to students' daily learning activities. This is particularly evident in developing countries, where higher education students face acute financial problems that greatly affect their daily educational activities. In Ethiopia, public university students do benefit from governmental cost-sharing programs. Moreover, health sciences students have additional costs during their clinical placements that are above the common expenses for university students.

Objectives

Authors aim to explore the challenges that undergraduate health sciences students in their clinical year face with limited pocket money, as well as how students perceive these limited funds affecting their learning activities and their ability t

SUBMITTER: Kumsa MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7725350 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature