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Title: | Social Media Tools for the Development of Pre-Service Health Sciences Researchers during COVID-19 in Pakistan |
Author: | ASGHAR, Muhammad Zaheer Arif, Seema Iqbal, Javed Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Pirita |
Others: | University of Helsinki Universitat Oberta de Catalunya University of Management and Technology Guangzhou University |
Citation: | Asghar, M.Z., Arif, S., Iqbal, J. & Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P. (2022). Social Media Tools for the Development of Pre-Service Health Sciences Researchers during COVID-19 in Pakistan. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(1), 1-22. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19010581 |
Abstract: | 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. |
Keywords: | social media tools research competencies health sciences COVID-19 research completion |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010581 |
Document type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Version: | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
Issue Date: | 5-Jan-2022 |
Publication license: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
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