scholarly journals PERCEIVED STRESS MANAGEMENT AMONG THE MEDICAL STUDENTS IN ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY, CHIDAMBARAM

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Stress Management ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Extensive Study ◽  
Stress Factors ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Coping With Stress

Job stress has its roots in work. Environment and its effects on job attitudes and behaviour and mental health of the students are determined by various co-existing Organizational and personal characteristics. Technically, when a person perceives physical or psychological threat or challenge are termed as stress. But in general, when the mind feel uneasy, restless, disturbed, agitated, tense, heavy or strained them this state is called stress. Stress affects the normal routine and health of the students. It’s difficult to find the perfect balance between too much challenge and too little coping is made all the more difficult because we are often unconscious of the stress we are suffering. Though there are various stress causing factors to an student, this extensive study aims at identifying the dominant stress factors and to arrive at the most suitable strategic approach to coping with stress, which would help to enhance the student effectiveness. The present study aims to Perceived Stress Management among the Medical Students in Annamalai University, Chidambaram. A samples of 150 medial students in Annamalai University selected randomly were studied. Primary data were collected by using a structured interview scheduled. All the respondents were asked the some questions in the same fashion and they were informed the purpose of study. ANOVA, Independent Sample t-test, Pearson Correlation and Regression analysis was applied to test the hypotheses. The findings and observations are the result and outcome of the interpretations made during the study of analysis.

scholarly journals Medical students’ perceptions of stress factors affecting their academic performance, perceived stress and stress management techniques

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 1791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Violet N. Pinto ◽  
Sumit Wasnik ◽  
Sumedha M. Joshi ◽  
Deepa H. Velankar
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Stress Management ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Clinical Teaching ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Stress Factors ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Management Techniques

Background: Medical students during their training period to become competent physicians are themselves vulnerable to various stresses which can affect their health and academic performance. The objectives of the study were to study MBBS students perceptions of stress factors affecting their academic performance; to assess the perceived stress in the students; to identify the stress management techniques used by the students.Methods: A cross-sectional was conducted on 169 MBBS students in a private medical college in Navi Mumbai after taking their consent. Data collection was by pretested, pre-coded, semi-structured self-administered questionnaire. Statistical analysis was done by SPSS Version 20.0 and relevant tests for data analysis.Results: The mean PSS score in the students was 26.96 (SD=6.332). Moderate stress and severe stress were present in 37.3% and 1.1% students respectively. Perceived stress was significantly associated with female sex, mother tongue; vastness of curriculum, dissatisfaction with clinical teaching, competition with peers and high parental expectations. More than 50% students felt that they were not able to adequately manage their stress. The most commonly used stress management techniques were social media usage and engaging in hobbies/sports.Conclusions: There is an urgent need for conducting screening programmes for stress in medical students and implementing measures which will equip them with skills to manage their stress.

scholarly journals Denigration of GP as a career choice: The students’ perspective

BJGP Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. bjgpopen20X101132
Author(s):  
Emmet Carlin ◽  
Hugh Alberti ◽  
Kristen Davies
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Career Choice ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Negative Comments ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk

Background: General practice in the UK and other parts of the world is facing a recruitment crisis with insufficient numbers of medical students selecting it as a career choice. Denigration of general practice has been postulated as one of the contributing factors. Aim: Our aim was to explore comments about GP as a career made by clinical teachers from the medical student’s perspective in order to further our understanding of the current difficulties of recruiting into general practice. Design and setting: This was a qualitative, explorative study of three focus groups of medical students from two medical schools in northern England. Method: A semi structured interview format was utilised. Results were analysed using thematic analysis. Results: Students reported hearing both positive and negative comments about GP as a career choice; they perceive the comments to potentially influence student career choice. Three underlying themes emerged: the individual (personal characteristics of students affecting the influence that comments have on them), the curriculum (presence and content of general practice teaching) and culture (in the medical school and profession). These were used to postulate a model which may explain how negative comments shape a students’ perception of GP. Conclusion: Denigration of GP is an ongoing problem within the medical profession and strategies to address it must be developed or recruitment to the specialty will continue to decline. This study suggests a model which can help to understand the complex relationship between factors which result in negative comments being taken on board by medical students.

scholarly journals Psychological Response and Mechanisms of Adaptation to Stress Caused by Covid-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-27
Author(s):  
I.S. Korotkova ◽  
M.V. Iakovleva ◽  
O. Yu Shchelkova ◽  
D.A. Eremina
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Psychological Intervention ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Online Study ◽  
Ways Of Coping Questionnaire ◽  
Mechanisms Of Adaptation

The article presents the results of a study aimed at analyzing the emotional state of participants (levels of anxiety and depression), their psychological strategies for coping with stress, and their level of perceived stress during the COVID-19 pandemic. The online study, conducted in March-May 2020, involved 629 people aged 18—67 (М=33.27, SD=10.6). Demographic and psychosocial data of the respondents were obtained by means of a structured interview. The methods also included the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), the Spielberger’s Test Anxiety Inventory (STAI), the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), and the Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WCQ). It was found that 30.3% of the interviewed respondents had anxiety, and 4.7% had depressive symptoms that required psychological intervention. The results revealed that healthcare providers who were not directly involved in working with COVID-19 patients were less prone to depression (p<0,05) than respondents with other professions; they had a tendency to use problem-focused coping strategies and were more inclined to follow WHO guidelines for preventing the spread of COVID-19.

scholarly journals The Changes in Stress Coping, Alcohol Use, Cigarette Smoking and Physical Activity during COVID-19 Related Lockdown in Medical Students in Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 302
Author(s):  
Aureliusz Kosendiak ◽  
Magdalena Król ◽  
Milena Ściskalska ◽  
Marta Kepinska
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Stress Factors ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Physical Impact ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Impact

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has significantly limited social contacts, thus contributing to deepening isolation. Therefore, SARS-CoV-2 exerted on humanity not only a physical impact but also a psychological one, often increasing the feeling of stress. The long-term effects of such a state could include the management of depression, so our study aimed to analyze groups of medical students in different periods of the pandemic (at the beginning of the pandemic, after half a year of the pandemic, after one year of the pandemic) in order to assess the impact of this situation on coping with stress. The impact of the pandemic on the development of stress factors such as alcohol consumption and smoking was also studied. The level of physical activity in the context of coping with an uncertain situation was also assessed. The impact of the above-mentioned factors on the behavior of students, including the Mini-COPE questionnaire, AUDIT test, the Fagerström test and the IPAQ questionnaire was analyzed. It has been shown that as the pandemic and the lockdown progressed, patients consumed more often or larger amounts of alcohol, smoked more cigarettes, and levels of physical activity decreased. All these factors may have had some impact on the deterioration of coping with stress among the respondents, which would indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic significantly contributed to an increase in the sense of stress among the students.

scholarly journals Pre-clinical Stress Management Workshops Increase Medical Students’ Knowledge and Self-awareness of Coping with Stress

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-241
Author(s):  
Beryl Manning-Geist ◽  
Fremonta Meyer ◽  
Justin Chen ◽  
Andrea Pelletier ◽  
Katherine Kosman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Stress Management ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Coping With Stress

scholarly journals Relationship Between Smartphone Addiction and Stress and Life Satisfaction in Medical Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-155
Author(s):  
Adeleh Eisanazar ◽  
◽  
Kiomars Najafi ◽  
Amin Mohammadi ◽  
Casra Sarlak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Satisfaction With Life Scale ◽  
Smartphone Addiction ◽  
Grade Point

Background: Students, as the first adopters of new technologies are more exposed to smartphone addiction than other groups in society, and consequently problems, such as biopsychological and academic conditions. Objective: This study aimed to explore the relationship between smartphone addiction and stress and life satisfaction in the medical students of Guilan University of Medical Sciences. Methods: The present cross-sectional study was performed on 331 medical students in the intern and trainee of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Guilan province, Iran, in 2020. Web-Based questionnaires were used to collect the necessary data. The personal and social information (age, gender, academic performance; grade point average, the place of residence, marital status, & educational level) and Smartphone addiction scale (SAS), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS; Cohen et al, 1983), and the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) were completed by the study volunteers. The information was entered into SPSS. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient, Independent Samples t-test, and multiple linear regression analysis) were used in statistical analysis. Results: The present research results suggested that smartphone addiction was positively correlated with stress (P=0.01, r=0.65) and life satisfaction (P=0.01, r=-0.58). Smartphone addiction scores, stress, and life satisfaction were influenced by demographic variables. The results of multiple analyses indicated that stress (β=0.52) and life satisfaction (β=-0.34), respectively, significantly explained 57% of the variance of smartphone addiction (P<0.001). Conclusion: The increase in smartphone addiction was associated with more perceived stress and lower life satisfaction among medical students. This finding can provide useful insights for policymakers about the psychological effects of smartphone addiction on students.

scholarly journals Evaluation of knowledge, attitude and practice regarding stress management among undergraduate medical students at tertiary care teaching hospital, New Delhi

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-88
Author(s):  
Sana Rehman ◽  
Zenis Baluja
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Stress Management ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Stress Factors ◽  
First Year ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
High Level ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

:Medical training requires continuous efforts and high level of perseverance, patience and commitment from medical students. Due to this performance pressure, students face high level of stress which affects not only their health negatively but also their thinking and learning abilities gets hampered.This study aimsto evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practice of stress management among undergraduate MBBS students at Hamdard Institute of medical sciences & research, Jamia Hamdard attatched to Hakeem Abdul Hameed Centenary hospital, a tertiary care hospital, New Delhi, India.A total of 254 undergraduate students of first year, second year and third first year of MBBS were explained the aims and objectives of the study and written informed consents were obtained from those who were willing to participate in the study. The questionnaire consisted of 12 questions regarding knowledge, attitude and practice on stress management [Annexure attached]. The students were asked to fill the questionnaire by themselves within 30 minutes of time. Out of 12 questions, 4 questions were of knowledge, 3 of attitude and 5 of practice regarding stress management among medical undergraduates. The questionnaires were collected and evaluated for their completeness. The data were recorded in Microsoft Excel Worksheet and analyzed.Out of 254 total undergraduates, 32.3%, 35.8% and 31.8% of students were of first, second and third year MBBS, respectively. 46.5% were male and 53.5% were female students. 28.4% students gave a relevant definition of stress. The most common condition related to stress is anxiety (79.6%). Only 37.4% of students could answer the correct clinical features of stress. Most common stressors were large syllabus (124%), less study time (28.7%) followed by apprehension to viva-voce. 72.7% of students marked that they have faced difficulties in adapting to the new environment and feeling home sickness, which was particularly seen in first-year students. Lack of friends (58.6%) was the most common non-academic cause of stress. 64.9% students had confronted stress because of competition related stress. Most commonly used stress relieving activities by the students was listening to music (63.7%) mostly in female students, followed by watching internet videos (24.1%) particularly in male students. Meditation and prayer were practiced by only 0.8% of students. 2.4% of students indulged themselves in their favorite hobbies when felt stress out and 5.1% students became addicted to smoking and alcohol.There were various stressors among medical students which has an adverse effect on the mental health of the medical students. There is an urgent need to establish and implement some strategies in order to adapt with the prevailing stress factors. Therefore, apart from the academic teaching, extracurricular activities such as meditation/yoga classes, sport activities, psychological counselling etc., should be incorporated in the medical curriculum. This will enhance the ability of students to deal with stress more effectively and this will definitely aid in improving their work efficiency.

scholarly journals A Controlled Pre-Post Analysis Investigating The Effect of Mindfulness On Perceived Stress and Cortisol Levels and Exam Performance in Medical Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmine Heath Hearn ◽  
Claire J Stocker
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Stress Management ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Salivary Cortisol ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
Exam Performance ◽  
Important Relationship ◽  
Cortisol Levels

Abstract Background. Medical students demonstrate higher levels of psychological distress compared with the general population and other student groups. Mindfulness interventions show promise in stress reduction for this group, and in the reduction of cortisol, an established clinical marker of the body’s stress response. This study investigated the relationship of mindfulness to perceived stress, salivary cortisol and assessment performance in undergraduate medical students in response to stressful and non-stressful events. Methods. A controlled pre-post analysis design with within-groups comparisons. 67 medical students completed the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) and provided perceived stress ratings and saliva samples, from which cortisol was extracted, during group work (control/baseline) and immediately prior to end of year 2 examinations (experimental). Academic performance data was extracted for comparison with measures. Results. Salivary cortisol and perceived stress were significantly increased prior to examinations. The change in cortisol levels from baseline (non-stressful, group work conditions) to experimental (stressful, pre-exam conditions) showed a significant negative correlation with exam performance. FFMQ score showed a significant positive correlation with exam performance and a significant negative correlation with salivary cortisol concentration. Conclusions. This study suggests that there exists an important relationship between mindfulness and biomarkers of stress, which may manifest into improved assessment outcomes potentially through healthier, more adaptive coping and stress management strategies. A novel strength of the present study is the identification of individual facets of mindfulness associated with stress and exam performance (acting with awareness and non-judging) suggesting that these may be important targets for improving medical students’ stress management and exam performance.

Guilty Pleasure No More

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 126-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin L. Nabi ◽  
Debora Pérez Torres ◽  
Abby Prestin
Keyword(s):  
Stress Management ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Individual Difference Variables ◽  
Relative Value ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
Managing Stress

Abstract. Despite the substantial attention paid to stress management in the extant coping literature, media use has been surprisingly overlooked as a strategy worthy of close examination. Although media scholars have suggested media use may be driven by a need to relax, related research has been sporadic and, until recently, disconnected from the larger conversation about stress management. The present research aimed to determine the relative value of media use within the broader range of coping strategies. Based on surveys of both students and breast cancer patients, media use emerged as one of the most frequently selected strategies for managing stress across a range of personality and individual difference variables. Further, heavier television consumers and those with higher perceived stress were also more likely to use media for coping purposes. Finally, those who choose media for stress management reported it to be an effective tool, although perhaps not as effective as other popular strategies. This research not only documents the centrality of media use in the corpus of stress management techniques, thus highlighting the value of academic inquiry into media-based coping, but it also offers evidence supporting the positive role media use can play in promoting psychological well-being.

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