Russian medical students in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: emotional reactions and baseline beliefs
Introduction During the pandemic of new coronavirus infection, some medical students were actively recruited to work with infected patients, which could provoke depression, anxiety, and stress. The concept of baseline beliefs predicts characteristics of individuals’ experience of trauma. Objective...
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Introduction
During the pandemic of new coronavirus infection, some medical students were actively recruited to work with infected patients, which could provoke depression, anxiety, and stress. The concept of baseline beliefs predicts characteristics of individuals’ experience of trauma.
Objectives
The study aimed to determine depression, anxiety, and stress levels in medical students and examine their baseline beliefs, as well as the relationship between baseline beliefs and emotional reactions.
Methods
Data were collected in the spring and summer of 2020 using a Google form that we developed. Thirty-seven medical students participated in the study. The WAS-37 questionnaire was used to examine baseline beliefs and the DASS-21 to measure depression, anxiety, and stress. Both questionnaires were adapted for use in Russia.
Results
We found that 78 % of the respondents had no depression, 86 % had no manifestations of anxiety, and 83 % felt stress-free. The mean values on the “Benevolence in the World” scale (M = 32.3±8.0) were within the average normative values, those on the “Justice” scale (M = 19.8±5.0) were below them, and those on the “Self-Image” scale (M = 29.6±5.9), “Luck” (M = 32.5±6.9) and “Controlling Beliefs” (M = 27.3±4.1) were above the average normative values. We found only one statistically significant relationship between emotional reactions and baseline beliefs, a negative correlation between depression and luck (rx = -0.360, p < 0.05).
Conclusions
In pandemic medical students, beliefs about one’s luck were associated with lower levels of depression.
Disclosure
No significant relationships.
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| spelling | doaj.art-96b884ce2a494436b62dc19e700d38012023-11-17T05:06:25ZengCambridge University PressEuropean Psychiatry0924-93381778-35852022-06-0165S488S48910.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.1242Russian medical students in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: emotional reactions and baseline beliefsY. Aleksandrovich0D. Ivanov1I. Gorkovaya2V. Titova3V. Rozhdestvenskiy4Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Department Of Psychosomatics And Psychotherapy, Saint Petersburg, Russian FederationSaint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Department Of Psychosomatics And Psychotherapy, Saint Petersburg, Russian FederationSaint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Department Of Psychosomatics And Psychotherapy, Saint Petersburg, Russian FederationSaint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Department Of Psychosomatics And Psychotherapy, Saint Petersburg, Russian FederationSaint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Department Of Psychosomatics And Psychotherapy, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation Introduction During the pandemic of new coronavirus infection, some medical students were actively recruited to work with infected patients, which could provoke depression, anxiety, and stress. The concept of baseline beliefs predicts characteristics of individuals’ experience of trauma. Objectives The study aimed to determine depression, anxiety, and stress levels in medical students and examine their baseline beliefs, as well as the relationship between baseline beliefs and emotional reactions. Methods Data were collected in the spring and summer of 2020 using a Google form that we developed. Thirty-seven medical students participated in the study. The WAS-37 questionnaire was used to examine baseline beliefs and the DASS-21 to measure depression, anxiety, and stress. Both questionnaires were adapted for use in Russia. Results We found that 78 % of the respondents had no depression, 86 % had no manifestations of anxiety, and 83 % felt stress-free. The mean values on the “Benevolence in the World” scale (M = 32.3±8.0) were within the average normative values, those on the “Justice” scale (M = 19.8±5.0) were below them, and those on the “Self-Image” scale (M = 29.6±5.9), “Luck” (M = 32.5±6.9) and “Controlling Beliefs” (M = 27.3±4.1) were above the average normative values. We found only one statistically significant relationship between emotional reactions and baseline beliefs, a negative correlation between depression and luck (rx = -0.360, p < 0.05). Conclusions In pandemic medical students, beliefs about one’s luck were associated with lower levels of depression. Disclosure No significant relationships. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0924933822012421/type/journal_article |
| spellingShingle | Y. Aleksandrovich D. Ivanov I. Gorkovaya V. Titova V. Rozhdestvenskiy Russian medical students in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: emotional reactions and baseline beliefs European Psychiatry |
| title | Russian medical students in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: emotional reactions and baseline beliefs |
| title_full | Russian medical students in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: emotional reactions and baseline beliefs |
| title_fullStr | Russian medical students in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: emotional reactions and baseline beliefs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Russian medical students in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: emotional reactions and baseline beliefs |
| title_short | Russian medical students in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: emotional reactions and baseline beliefs |
| title_sort | russian medical students in the first wave of the covid 19 pandemic emotional reactions and baseline beliefs |
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