Stressors among medical college undergraduates
Background: Medical colleges are accountable for training medical students to have sound knowledge and ability before they take up the professional responsibilities. Therefore, medical colleges typically use a curriculum of orations, simulations supervised practice, mentoring, and hands-on experienc...
| Main Authors: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2020-01-01
|
| Series: | Archives of Mental Health |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://www.amhonline.org/article.asp?issn=2589-9171;year=2020;volume=21;issue=2;spage=90;epage=94;aulast=Nihal |
| _version_ | 1818610662972063744 |
|---|---|
| author | N Gyan Nihal Pramod K. R. Mallepalli Ravulapati Sateesh Babu Manjula Sakamudi |
| author_facet | N Gyan Nihal Pramod K. R. Mallepalli Ravulapati Sateesh Babu Manjula Sakamudi |
| author_sort | N Gyan Nihal |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | Background: Medical colleges are accountable for training medical students to have sound knowledge and ability before they take up the professional responsibilities. Therefore, medical colleges typically use a curriculum of orations, simulations supervised practice, mentoring, and hands-on experience to enhance undergraduate's skill. In such a process unfortunately few areas of the training process have unintentional negative effects on student's physical and mental health.
Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess stressors among medical undergraduate students. The objectives of this study are i. To compare stressors among government medical college. Undergraduates and private medical college undergraduates. ii. To compare stressors among gender. iii. To compare stressors among various years of study.
Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study consisted a sample size of 1568 participants who are undergraduate students from various medical colleges across India. The samples were drawn using convenience sampling method. The Medical Student Stressor Questionnaire (MSSQ) was the tool used to collect data for this study.
Results: Academic Related Stressors (Mean score = 2.156) was higher in medical college undergraduates followed by teaching and learning related stressors, group activities related stressor, Interpersonal and intrapersonal related stressors, social related stressors and Drive and desire related stressors with mean scores of 1.711, 1707, 1.599, 1.385 and 1.243 respectively.
Conclusions: Academic stress was the most broadly source of stress found and thus most often contributed to overall stress scores. Females show more stress as compared to males. Private medical college undergraduates had more medical stress compared to government medical undergraduates. Final year undergraduates had more medical stress followed by first year. This needs attention towards curriculum change process in medical education. |
| first_indexed | 2024-12-16T15:18:00Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-41dc3bb290a745e984955e8a19926288 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2589-9171 2589-918X |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-12-16T15:18:00Z |
| publishDate | 2020-01-01 |
| publisher | Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Archives of Mental Health |
| spelling | doaj.art-41dc3bb290a745e984955e8a199262882022-12-21T22:26:45ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsArchives of Mental Health2589-91712589-918X2020-01-01212909410.4103/AMH.AMH_15_20Stressors among medical college undergraduatesN Gyan NihalPramod K. R. MallepalliRavulapati Sateesh BabuManjula SakamudiBackground: Medical colleges are accountable for training medical students to have sound knowledge and ability before they take up the professional responsibilities. Therefore, medical colleges typically use a curriculum of orations, simulations supervised practice, mentoring, and hands-on experience to enhance undergraduate's skill. In such a process unfortunately few areas of the training process have unintentional negative effects on student's physical and mental health. Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess stressors among medical undergraduate students. The objectives of this study are i. To compare stressors among government medical college. Undergraduates and private medical college undergraduates. ii. To compare stressors among gender. iii. To compare stressors among various years of study. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study consisted a sample size of 1568 participants who are undergraduate students from various medical colleges across India. The samples were drawn using convenience sampling method. The Medical Student Stressor Questionnaire (MSSQ) was the tool used to collect data for this study. Results: Academic Related Stressors (Mean score = 2.156) was higher in medical college undergraduates followed by teaching and learning related stressors, group activities related stressor, Interpersonal and intrapersonal related stressors, social related stressors and Drive and desire related stressors with mean scores of 1.711, 1707, 1.599, 1.385 and 1.243 respectively. Conclusions: Academic stress was the most broadly source of stress found and thus most often contributed to overall stress scores. Females show more stress as compared to males. Private medical college undergraduates had more medical stress compared to government medical undergraduates. Final year undergraduates had more medical stress followed by first year. This needs attention towards curriculum change process in medical education.http://www.amhonline.org/article.asp?issn=2589-9171;year=2020;volume=21;issue=2;spage=90;epage=94;aulast=Nihalmedical undergraduate studentsstressstressorsthe medical student stressor questionnaire |
| spellingShingle | N Gyan Nihal Pramod K. R. Mallepalli Ravulapati Sateesh Babu Manjula Sakamudi Stressors among medical college undergraduates Archives of Mental Health medical undergraduate students stress stressors the medical student stressor questionnaire |
| title | Stressors among medical college undergraduates |
| title_full | Stressors among medical college undergraduates |
| title_fullStr | Stressors among medical college undergraduates |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stressors among medical college undergraduates |
| title_short | Stressors among medical college undergraduates |
| title_sort | stressors among medical college undergraduates |
| topic | medical undergraduate students stress stressors the medical student stressor questionnaire |
| url | http://www.amhonline.org/article.asp?issn=2589-9171;year=2020;volume=21;issue=2;spage=90;epage=94;aulast=Nihal |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT ngyannihal stressorsamongmedicalcollegeundergraduates AT pramodkrmallepalli stressorsamongmedicalcollegeundergraduates AT ravulapatisateeshbabu stressorsamongmedicalcollegeundergraduates AT manjulasakamudi stressorsamongmedicalcollegeundergraduates |