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Social Media Tools for the Development of Pre-Service Health Sciences Researchers during COVID-19 in Pakistan
The development of health sciences researchers has immense significance during a pandemic to control, manage, and prevent future outbreaks of the disease. This study focused on the use of social media tools (SMT) among pre-service health sciences researchers to complement their research competencies...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8744709/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35010843 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010581 |
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author | Asghar, Muhammad Zaheer Arif, Seema Iqbal, Javed Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Pirita |
author_facet | Asghar, Muhammad Zaheer Arif, Seema Iqbal, Javed Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Pirita |
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description | The development of health sciences researchers has immense significance during a pandemic to control, manage, and prevent future outbreaks of the disease. This study focused on the use of social media tools (SMT) among pre-service health sciences researchers to complement their research competencies (RCT) and research completion levels (RC) during COVID-19. This study used the Vitae research development framework (RDF) to measure research competencies as a mediator between the use of social media tools and research completion levels among post-graduate health sciences students. A cross-section survey research approach was adopted to collect data from the post-graduate students (n = 410) enrolled in health sciences departments at universities in Pakistan. The SmartPLS 3.3.8 software was used to analyze data through Partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The results revealed that different social media tools such as communication, information management, and multimedia have a direct influence on the research competencies of the pre-service researchers and have an indirect effect on the research completion levels. Health sciences institutions may devise social-media-based instructional strategies to develop post-graduate students’ research competencies, such as personal effectiveness, research governance, and research engagement, to help them compile their research and complete their degree program in time during an emergency. |
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spelling | pubmed-87447092022-01-11 Social Media Tools for the Development of Pre-Service Health Sciences Researchers during COVID-19 in Pakistan Asghar, Muhammad Zaheer Arif, Seema Iqbal, Javed Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Pirita Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The development of health sciences researchers has immense significance during a pandemic to control, manage, and prevent future outbreaks of the disease. This study focused on the use of social media tools (SMT) among pre-service health sciences researchers to complement their research competencies (RCT) and research completion levels (RC) during COVID-19. This study used the Vitae research development framework (RDF) to measure research competencies as a mediator between the use of social media tools and research completion levels among post-graduate health sciences students. A cross-section survey research approach was adopted to collect data from the post-graduate students (n = 410) enrolled in health sciences departments at universities in Pakistan. The SmartPLS 3.3.8 software was used to analyze data through Partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The results revealed that different social media tools such as communication, information management, and multimedia have a direct influence on the research competencies of the pre-service researchers and have an indirect effect on the research completion levels. Health sciences institutions may devise social-media-based instructional strategies to develop post-graduate students’ research competencies, such as personal effectiveness, research governance, and research engagement, to help them compile their research and complete their degree program in time during an emergency. MDPI 2022-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8744709/ /pubmed/35010843 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010581 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Asghar, Muhammad Zaheer Arif, Seema Iqbal, Javed Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Pirita Social Media Tools for the Development of Pre-Service Health Sciences Researchers during COVID-19 in Pakistan |
title | Social Media Tools for the Development of Pre-Service Health Sciences Researchers during COVID-19 in Pakistan |
title_full | Social Media Tools for the Development of Pre-Service Health Sciences Researchers during COVID-19 in Pakistan |
title_fullStr | Social Media Tools for the Development of Pre-Service Health Sciences Researchers during COVID-19 in Pakistan |
title_full_unstemmed | Social Media Tools for the Development of Pre-Service Health Sciences Researchers during COVID-19 in Pakistan |
title_short | Social Media Tools for the Development of Pre-Service Health Sciences Researchers during COVID-19 in Pakistan |
title_sort | social media tools for the development of pre-service health sciences researchers during covid-19 in pakistan |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8744709/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35010843 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010581 |
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