Social Capital and Related Factors in Western Iran Students Publisher Pubmed



Rezaei Z¹ ; Karimianpour G² ; Vahabi A³ ; Latifi A⁴ ; Amani M² ; Moradi M⁵
Source: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene Published:2020

Abstract

Background and aim. Social capital involves a set of norms available in social systems which improves the interaction between people and reduces the costs of interactions and communications. The purpose of this research was to study the social capital of the students of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences and its related factors, 2017. Material and methods. The method of this study was the descriptive survey. The statistical sample of this study included all students of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences among whom 378 students were selected randomly as the study sample. Delaviz questionnaire of social capital was employed for data collection and data analysis was performed using SPSS software, through descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation) and Inferential statistics (U-Mann Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis). Results. The mean of social capital was 70.56!±!10/88. The minimum and maximum mean was measured for participation in local communityand group participation, respectively. In this study, there were significant associations between social capital and gender, field of study as well as marital status (p!