Study of Stress Level Among Medical School Students of Semnan University, Iran

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Bineshian ◽  
M. Saberian ◽  
S. HajiAghajani ◽  
R. Ghorbani ◽  
M. Fredonian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Stress Level ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Stressful Situation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Medical School Students

Background:The professional education can be stressful experience and medical students are exposed to high levels of stress in both theoretical and clinical components of their educational programme. The high level of stress often leads to disruptions in physiological and psychological health.Objective:The purpose of this study was to study stress in medical school students of Semnan university.Methods:This study was a descriptive and cross-sectional research. The sample were 211 students of general physicians (160) and paramedical (51). 206 students filled in a questionnaire.Data were collected using a stress questionnaire (R.S.Eliot). Then data were analyzed by SPSS and mean, frequency distributions. For this study were used chi-square, spearman and pearson correlation coefficient.Results:The findings showed 9.7% of students under study had high control degree, 82.5% of students had intact life but sometimes stressful situation caused anxiety for them, 6.8% of students feel depress and 1% in their life have mental crisis or conflict.Conclusion:Teaching to students in order to reduce stress level and provide educational improvement in medical students are recommended.

scholarly journals Career Aspiration and Life Satisfaction of Final Year Medical School Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-491
Author(s):  
Uzma Zahid
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Satisfaction With Life Scale ◽  
Career Aspiration ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Medical School Students

The aim of this study was to assess career aspiration and its three subscales (leadership, achievement, educational) and their relationship with life-satisfaction in final year medical school students of both genders. This cross-sectional study was carried out in final year students of a medical college in Rawalpindi,Pakistan using 24 items revised English Version of Career Aspiration Scale (CAS) and 5 items Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS). This study was conducted on total 88 final year medical school students, among them 44 were males and 44 were females. Findings show significant correlation of career aspiration with lifesatisfaction, as well as of its educational subscale and life satisfaction. There was a non-significant correlation of achievement and leadership subscales of career aspiration with life-satisfaction. Medical students who are more aspired towards their career seem to be more satisfied in their life. Moreover, medical students were more interested in getting more and more education but there is lack of aptitude towards achievement and leadership, signifying the need of mentoring amongst medical students. Practical steps should be taken to develop achievement and leadership aspects of medical students, which can ultimately enhance their career aspirations.

Students´ Attitude to Psychological and Pedagogical Training in Medical School

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-13
Author(s):  
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A. Pleshkunova ◽  
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E. Vasileva ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Educational Training ◽  
School Students ◽  
Pedagogical Training ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Medical School Students

The article shows the need for diagnostic of medical students� attitudes to psychological and pedagogical training in order to improve its quality and to give students a reflexive situation intended for accepting the understanding of the importance of psychological and pedagogical competency in the structure of professional medical practice. Authors provide the results of research aimed at studying the medical school students� attitude to psychological and educational training.

scholarly journals Analysis of American Medical Students’ Knowledge of Physical Activity Recommendations

PRiMER ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candace A. Adedokun ◽  
Wesley G. Curles ◽  
Emily L. DeMaio ◽  
Irfan M. Asif
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
American Medical ◽  
Strength Training ◽  
Exercise Physiology ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Physical Activity Guidelines

Introduction: The benefits of physical activity (PA) are widely recognized; American medical schools have begun to emphasize PA, but the effectiveness of these changes is unclear. Methods: We performed a cross-sectional analysis of medical students enrolled in US osteopathic and allopathic medical schools between August 2019 and May 2020. All participants completed an electronic survey about PA instruction across the 4 years of medical school. Objective information including hours and format of PA instruction was collected. Subjectively, participants reported their relative comfort discussing various aspects of PA education with patients. Results: A total of 480 medical students completed the survey, representing 82 of the 192 US medical schools (69 allopathic, 13 osteopathic). Students are more comfortable discussing overall exercise benefits than exercise testing, exercise prescription, and exercise physiology (P<.0001). They also report more exposure to general PA guidelines related to overall PA duration than strength training (P<.0001). Students at allopathic and osteopathic schools reported similar outcomes regarding PA education, while students with class sizes under 200 reported increased familiarity with National Physical Activity Guidelines regarding PA duration (P<.0001) and strength training (P=.01).  Conclusion: Despite recent efforts to improve PA education in medical school, students feel unprepared to apply their knowledge in a clinical setting and remain unaware of national PA guidelines. Future studies should determine how to practically integrate PA education longitudinally into curricula to change PA education from an afterthought to an essential component of medical school education.

scholarly journals Knowledge Levels of Medical Faculty Students and Residents about Ionizing Radiation

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-137
Author(s):  
Hatice İkiışık ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Medical Faculty ◽  
Ionising Radiation ◽  
Categorical Variables ◽  
School Students ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Knowledge Levels ◽  
Medical School Students

This study aimed to evaluate the knowledge levels of medical school students and residents about ionising radiation. The study is designed as descriptive research, and it was conducted with 369 medical school students and residents. A survey form was used in the research. A Chi-square test was used to compare categorical variables. In the study, 369 people were reached within the scope of the research. A total of 60.7% of the research participants were clinical medicine students (4th, 5th, 6th grade) and 39.3% were residents. A total of 42.0% of the participants of the study were male, 58.0% were women. It was found that 17.9% of the clinical medical students and 18.6% of the residents had sufficient knowledge of ionising radiation (p=0.002). A total of 87.0% of the participants in the study answered correctly that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) does not contain radiation and 93.5% answered correctly that ultrasonography (USG) does not contain radiation. 74.8% of the participants stated that having knowledge about ionising radiation would contribute to “protecting sensitive groups from ionising radiation” in medical practice. This ratio is 77.2% in clinical medicine students and 71.0% in residents. The study found that knowledge levels of medical faculty students and residents about ionising radiation were insufficient. Medical students and residents are recommended to be trained on radiation and the radiological requests of residents to be evaluated.

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and stress; a study of international medical school students

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S633-S633
Author(s):  
M. Husain ◽  
D.L. Dumitrascu ◽  
I. Chaudhry
Keyword(s):  
Irritable Bowel Syndrome ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders ◽  
Stressful Events ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Controlled Study ◽  
School Students ◽  
Irritable Bowel ◽  
Medical School Students

IntroductionIrritable bowel syndrome is one of the most commonly diagnosed functional gastrointestinal disorders. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and its association with stress have not been researched in regards to foreign medical students in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.ObjectiveTo establish the prevalence of IBS in foreign medical school students and the relationship with stress.MethodsThis observational case-controlled study was carried out in “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The sample size was 102, and the data was collected using an online self-report questionnaire. The ‘Rome 3 criteria’ was used to diagnose IBS and ‘Stressful Life Events Check-list’ was used to measure levels of stress.ResultsThe prevalence of IBS was 24.5%, with females having higher rates (34%) compared to males (16.4%). The types of IBS were IBS-M (mixed form) 8.8%, IBS-D (diarrhoea dominant) 6.9%, IBS-C (constipation dominant) 5.9% and IBS-U (undefined) 2.9%. Students with IBS reported higher social stress compared to students without IBS.ConclusionsMore efforts should be made to combat stress that medical students experience in order to reduce the number of IBS cases. This may involve an increased role of the medical school to develop initiatives and support, with the aim of helping medical school students better cope with stress and stressful events.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals Response to Vaccination against Mumps in Medical Students: Two Doses Are Needed

Viruses ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1311
Author(s):  
Andrea Trevisan ◽  
Angelo Moretto ◽  
Chiara Bertoncello ◽  
Annamaria Nicolli ◽  
Stefano Maso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Significant Response ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mumps Vaccine ◽  
Good Level ◽  
Spread Of Infection ◽  
Mumps Antibodies ◽  
Medical School Students

Mumps is a vaccine-preventable infectious disease diffuse worldwide. The implementation of mumps vaccination reduced largely the spread of infection. On 11,327 Medical School students the prevalence of mumps positive antibodies was evaluated according to dose/doses of vaccine, year of birth and sex. Compliance to mumps vaccine was low in students born before 1990 but increased consistently after this year, above all compliance to two doses, due to the implementation of the vaccine offer. Positivity of mumps antibodies is significantly (p < 0.0001) lower in students vaccinated once (71.2%) compared to those vaccinated twice (85.4%). In addition, students born after 1995, largely vaccinated twice, showed a seropositivity near to 90%. Further, females had a significantly (p < 0.0001) higher proportion of positive antibodies after vaccination than males, both one (74.6% vs. 64.7%) and two doses (86.8% vs. 82.9%). Finally, seropositivity after two vaccine doses remains high (86.1%) even 15 years after the second dose. In conclusion, the research highlighted that vaccination against mumps reaches a good level of coverage only after two doses of vaccine persisting at high levels over 15 years and induces a more significant response in females.

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