Does Self-Efficacy Affect Clinical Reasoning in Dental Students?

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Individual ability, motivation, age, and gender are all specific learner-related factors that can affect the academic performance of undergraduate dental students. Clinical reasoning and self-efficacy may potentially play crucial roles in this. This research aims to study the effects of clinical reasoning and self-efficacy on academic performance and to determine the relationship between them.

Materials and methods

This is a cross-sectional quantitative study that was conducted in 2021, and the study participants included 81 (86.19% response rate) final-year dental students who responded to an online questionnaire containing a specially designed clinical reasoning test and a self-efficacy scale.

Results

Although the levels of clinical reasoning skills and

SUBMITTER: Nafea ET 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9676534 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature