Perceived social support among students of medical sciences
Background: Social support is emotional and instrumental assistance from family, friends or neighbors, and has an important but different impact on individuals, mainly depending on contextual factors. Objective: To determine the status of perceived social support and related personal and family ch...
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| author | Freshteh Zamani-Alavijeh Fatemeh Raeesi Dehkordi Parvin Shahry |
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| description | Background: Social support is emotional and instrumental assistance from family, friends or neighbors, and has
an important but different impact on individuals, mainly depending on contextual factors.
Objective: To determine the status of perceived social support and related personal and family characteristics of
medical sciences students in Ahvaz, Iran.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the target population included the students of Ahvaz Jundishapur
University of Medical Sciences in the second semester of 2013-2014, of whom 763 were selected by cluster
random sampling method. The study tool was a two-part questionnaire containing 48 self-administered questions
including 25 questions of measurements of personal and family characteristics and a Persian modified version of
Vaux's social support scale (Cronbach's α=0.745). Data were analyzed with T test, ANOVA and chi-square and
using SPSS version 16 and 0.05 was considered as the level of significance.
Results: The mean score of the perceived social support was 17.06±3.6 and 60.3% of them reported low social
support. There was a significant relationship among the perceived social support and sex (p=0.02), faculty
(p<0.0001), ethnicity (p=0.034) and the duration of weekly residence in dormitory (p=0.031). But no significant
relationship was found between this variable and other individual and familial characteristics.
Conclusion: Based on students` low social support and importance of social support in reducing stress and
academic failure, the planners need to provide efficient supportive interventions for students |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f7d62878a1294497b0aab53d1985ff522022-12-22T00:59:56ZengElectronic PhysicianElectronic Physician2008-58422008-58422017-06-01964479448810.19082/4479Perceived social support among students of medical sciencesFreshteh Zamani-AlavijehFatemeh Raeesi DehkordiParvin ShahryBackground: Social support is emotional and instrumental assistance from family, friends or neighbors, and has an important but different impact on individuals, mainly depending on contextual factors. Objective: To determine the status of perceived social support and related personal and family characteristics of medical sciences students in Ahvaz, Iran. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the target population included the students of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences in the second semester of 2013-2014, of whom 763 were selected by cluster random sampling method. The study tool was a two-part questionnaire containing 48 self-administered questions including 25 questions of measurements of personal and family characteristics and a Persian modified version of Vaux's social support scale (Cronbach's α=0.745). Data were analyzed with T test, ANOVA and chi-square and using SPSS version 16 and 0.05 was considered as the level of significance. Results: The mean score of the perceived social support was 17.06±3.6 and 60.3% of them reported low social support. There was a significant relationship among the perceived social support and sex (p=0.02), faculty (p<0.0001), ethnicity (p=0.034) and the duration of weekly residence in dormitory (p=0.031). But no significant relationship was found between this variable and other individual and familial characteristics. Conclusion: Based on students` low social support and importance of social support in reducing stress and academic failure, the planners need to provide efficient supportive interventions for studentshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5557125/Social supportMedical student |
| spellingShingle | Freshteh Zamani-Alavijeh Fatemeh Raeesi Dehkordi Parvin Shahry Perceived social support among students of medical sciences Electronic Physician Social support Medical student |
| title | Perceived social support among students of medical sciences |
| title_full | Perceived social support among students of medical sciences |
| title_fullStr | Perceived social support among students of medical sciences |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perceived social support among students of medical sciences |
| title_short | Perceived social support among students of medical sciences |
| title_sort | perceived social support among students of medical sciences |
| topic | Social support Medical student |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5557125/ |
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