At Generations we provide quality mental health services, including: residential treatment, supportive housing, long-term health care, outpatient therapy, and medication management. We have been improving the quality of life for our customers for over 20 years. Generations is dedicated to ensuring that the highest quality of clinical care is provided to every service recipient.
We always ensure that all service recipient strengths are recognized and incorporated into daily care. The ultimate goal of Generations for every service recipient is that primary focus is placed on his or her recovery and encouraging them to regain their independence and highest quality of daily living. Our holistic approach to person-centered care allows service recipients the opportunity to flourish in their daily living skills. The initial career interest data was obtained from the retrieved EG records for the study group and through a survey sent through emails for the control group.
The data in this study was collected from the enrollment and registration records of students in the years between and from QU-Health admission records at the Qatar University. The datasets were retrieved electronically and extracted in the form of excel sheets. The raw data was processed and cross-checked with the students who have a history of enrollment on EG training.
Those students who have been exposed to EG frameworks were considered as the study group, whereas the students who were not exposed to EG frameworks were assigned as the control group. Grade 12 students who joined EG in are expected to enroll in ; grade 11 students will enroll in ; and grade 10 students will enroll in and so on.
Thus, the study allows for 1—3 years of temporality in reference to the natural educational sequence see Figure 2. For the study group, the inclusion criteria are the Qatar University students who are actively enrolled in Healthcare majors composites Health Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, Dental Medicine. All the included students were females and Qatari nationals, who graduated from Qatari high schools.
Graduate students of M. Male students were excluded since EG training enrollment was initially restricted to females as the Qatar University health majors were only offered for females. The study is population-based; it included all the 2, students on record. A total of 1, students were excluded 1, were not Qatari, were graduate students enrolled in M. The number of eligible students was Students who never attended EG training were assigned to the control group, whereas students who attended EG training comprised the study group.
Data management protocols are implemented at the Qatar University-admission and registration department. The retrieved records of both the study and control groups were obtained from the same source and treated with unified data management guidelines.
The code for the school types, student classifications, gender, and nationality were standardized according to the Cognos database management system. Thus, the baseline of this study is the healthcare major. The career interest survey question was face checked by experts and focus groups to ensure its validity and relevance. The data related to initial career interest of the students who attended the EG training were retrieved from the databases following the same classification: healthcare or other than healthcare.
The sample was not selected by the researcher, rather it involved all the QU-Health students in the records. This study reflects a natural environment without interference from the researcher, and this enhances the external validity. The primary outcome variable of this study is the enrollment in EG training. This is analyzed in association with the type of school, high school percentage, and career interest.
All the subjects of this study were the Qatar University students of healthcare majors. All were Qatari female students who finished their high school in Qatar see Table 1. Total QU-Health records of admissions between and involve eligible students; 94 students Therefore, the final studied number is students. Figure 3. Attending the EG training has been analyzed in association with the history of high school types among both groups; the findings were analyzed through logistic regression in reference to the government school type as the baseline.
Among the group who attended EG training, there were students In comparison, among the group who did not attend EG training and were enrolled to QU-Health immediately, students Table 3. Empower Generations training attendance and the initial career interest in both groups. The health majors composite includes female students: 15 from Dental Medicine, from the College of Health Sciences, from the college of medicine, and 68 from the College of Pharmacy.
The analysis was performed as a composite for the QU-Health colleges to reduce the effect modification of capacity enrollment and years of operations per healthcare major. QU-Health students with a history of EG training include two The logistic regression was adjusted based on the type of college.
Table 4. Logistic regression was performed at 0. The college covariate remained insignificant after adjustment whereas the school type and initial career interest remained significant. The model will help predict whether a certain student has gone through EG training provided that we know the initial interest, school type, and the Cumulative GPA. The OR shows that students who did not have an initial career interest in healthcare but were successfully admitted to QU-Health majors are approximately Regarding the school type, the results indicate that QU-Health enrollments through EG training involve international schools more significantly compared to enrollments without EG training.
This indicates enhanced potential of the EG training to attract students from international schools. Despite the EG training being similarly offered for all the school types, the international school students seem to meet the admission language requirements to health majors more frequently compared to those from the independent and government schools. Table 5. Logistic regression and OR for school type and initial career interest. However, the study has shown no significant association between the high school percentage, individual colleges, or age.
Figure 4. The core contextual model of the EG training framework involves providing practical training, real-life experiences, and career education to enforce commitment and enhance the academic success in healthcare majors. A number of studies have focused on examining the effectiveness of various structured extracurricular educational projects by considering several variables that influence the career choices of adolescents and direct them toward healthcare careers.
The results from these studies support the findings presented in this paper Fouad and Smith, ; Turner et al. The obtained results were found to be consistent with a study performed through the Southern Ontario Mentorship Program, which included practical sessions for career orientation.
Many other studies have reported that educational frameworks effectively direct the career interests of high-school students. The project provided the participants with a training framework for college-related knowledge, academic behaviors, and content knowledge. The study reported improved academic perception and career readiness, as well as academic performance among high-school students.
Farland-Smith studied the effect of an inquiry-focused interactive approach on female middle-school students and concluded that exposing students to real-life college experiences and stimulating genuine interactions with scientists, even over a few days, greatly reinforces their positive perceptions of science and healthcare careers. Future work will consider multi-gender cohorts, the second phase of EG training will include males since the Qatar University started recruiting both genders in the health majors.
The limitations of this research are due in part to issues inherent in the case-control design. Because the study cohorts are a reconstitution of university records, any biases introduced into the classification or coding remain possible.
Some high school students might have also switched their school type after they joined the EG training and before they are admitted to QU-Health, a fact that leads to misclassification bias. The study includes various confounders such as the social, environmental, and intrinsic factors that influence the enrollment into the EG training, career interest, high school percentages, and GPAs.
The case-control study has a retrospective nature, thus the respondents to the survey might have recall bias when asked about their initial career interest. The question about career interest that was sent through the email involved only two options: healthcare or not healthcare. Thus, students who were initially interested in natural or life science were not counted. The study did not involve all the EG students, as some of them are still in high school and others have chosen other careers.
It is also possible that members switched categories or transferred to other majors by the end of the study and the beginning of the next academic term.
Another potential limitation is that some of the high school students who joined EG training have chosen other healthcare careers in different national and international universities, these are not included in the study. The study has shown a significant association between the EG training enrollment and the type of school and the initial career interest of high school students. The EG training is perceived to direct the interest of high school students toward careers in healthcare and enhance the performance of college students and their university GPAs.
Thus, EG training is a useful bridge between high school and university healthcare enrollments. Dubetz and Wilson revealed in their study that hands-on training experiences during the high school phase and meeting role models have a great impact on the career choices of high-school students in healthcare and US capacity building. AA and RA planned, designed, drafted, and implemented the study. RK completed the data and statistical analyses. All authors declare their approval for the final version to be published and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work to ensure that any questions related to the accuracy or integrity of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Qatar University is the funder for the publication fees and contributed to the overall costs running the project throughout the past 7 years. The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. Abduljawad, H.
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