AUTHOR=Alzain Amel F. , Elhussein Nagwan , Hamd Zuhal Y. , Fadulelmulla Ibtisam Abdallah , Omer Awatif M. , Alotaibi Ahoud , Alsuhaymi Amani , Aljohany Maram , Alharbi Najwa , Ahmed Amna Mohamed , Hussien Rehab , Elamin Badria Awad , Mohamed Ahmed Medani Afaf , Khandaker Mayeen Uddin 

TITLE=The impact of health volunteering of radiology students on improving their self-skills and practical capabilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Medicine

VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2023

YEAR=2024

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/medicine/articles/10.3389/fmed.2023.1243014

DOI=10.3389/fmed.2023.1243014

ISSN=2296-858X

ABSTRACT=Volunteering is a beneficial activity with a wide range of positive outcomes, from the individual to the communal level. In many ways, volunteering has a positive impact on the development of a volunteer's personality and experience. Our study aims to evaluate the impact of health volunteering on improving the self-skills and practical capacities of students in the western region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Materials and Methods: The study was a descriptive cross-sectional electronic web-based survey that was submitted on a web-based questionnaire, 183 students answered the survey then the data was analyzed using SPSS. Results: This study shows that 95.6% of participants agree and strongly agree that the health volunteering experience was a useful experience, 2.7% of the participants neither agree nor disagree, and 1.6% disagree and strongly disagree. Regarding the distribution of the participants on skills learned from volunteering experience, the largest proportion of student volunteers in the health sector 36.1% acquired