Paiboonsithiwong Salilthip, Kunanitthaworn Natchaya, Songtrijuck Natchaphon, Wongpakaran Nahathai, Wongpakaran Tinakon
Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
J Educ Eval Health Prof. 2016 Oct 31;13:38. doi: 10.3352/jeehp.2016.13.38. eCollection 2016.
This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of various learning styles among medical students and their correlations with academic achievement and mental health problems in these students.
This study was conducted among 140 first-year medical students of Chiang Mai University, Thailand in 2014. The participants completed the visual-aural-read/write-kinesthetic (VARK) questionnaire, the results of which can be categorized into 4 modes, corresponding to how many of the 4 types are preferred by a respondent. The 10-item Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) and the 21-item Outcome Inventory (OI-21) were also used. The participants' demographic data, grade point average (GPA), and scores of all measurements are presented using simple statistics. Correlation and regression analysis were employed to analyze differences in the scores and to determine the associations among them.
Sixty percent of the participants were female. The mean age was 18.86±0.74 years old. Quadmodal was found to be the most preferred VARK mode (43.6%). Unimodal, bimodal, and trimodal modes were preferred by 35%, 12.9%, and 18.6% of the participants, respectively. Among the strong unimodal learners, visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic preferences were reported by 4.3%, 7.1%, 11.4%, and 12.1% of participants, respectively. No difference was observed in the PSS-10, OI-anxiety, OI-depression, and OI-somatization scores according to the VARK modes, although a significant effect was found for OI-interpersonal (F=2.788, P=0.043). Moreover, neither VARK modes nor VARK types were correlated with GPA.
The most preferred VARK learning style among medical students was quadmodal. Learning styles were not associated with GPA or mental health problems, except for interpersonal problems.
本研究旨在调查医学生中各种学习风格的流行情况，以及这些学习风格与医学生学业成绩和心理健康问题之间的相关性。
2014年，本研究在泰国清迈大学的140名一年级医学生中进行。参与者完成了视觉-听觉-读/写-动觉（VARK）问卷，其结果可分为4种模式，对应于受访者对4种类型中偏好的数量。还使用了10项感知压力量表（PSS-10）和21项结果量表（OI-21）。使用简单统计数据呈现参与者的人口统计学数据、平均绩点（GPA）和所有测量的分数。采用相关分析和回归分析来分析分数差异并确定它们之间的关联。
60%的参与者为女性。平均年龄为18.86±0.74岁。发现四模式是最受欢迎的VARK模式（43.6%）。单模式、双模式和三模式分别被35%、12.9%和18.6%的参与者所偏好。在强烈的单模式学习者中，分别有4.3%、7.1%、11.4%和12.1%的参与者报告了视觉、听觉、读/写和动觉偏好。根据VARK模式，在PSS-10、OI-焦虑、OI-抑郁和OI-躯体化得分上未观察到差异，尽管在OI-人际方面发现了显著影响（F = 2.788，P = 0.043）。此外，VARK模式和VARK类型均与GPA无关。
医学生中最受欢迎的VARK学习风格是四模式。学习风格与GPA或心理健康问题无关，人际问题除外。
