Stress Intervention Among University Students: Online Medical Tune Competition

This innovative health intervention aimed to reduce stress among university students through interaction with music and developing awareness of the effect of music in stressful situations such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. The setting for this intervention was an online Instagram community with...

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Main Authors: Naing Oo Tha, Maher Fouad Sefein Beshay, Yeap, Boon Tat, Mohd Firdaus Mohd Hayati, Mohammad Saffree Jeffree
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Online Access:https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34274/1/FULL%20TEXT.pdf
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author Naing Oo Tha
Maher Fouad Sefein Beshay
Yeap, Boon Tat
Mohd Firdaus Mohd Hayati
Mohammad Saffree Jeffree
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description This innovative health intervention aimed to reduce stress among university students through interaction with music and developing awareness of the effect of music in stressful situations such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. The setting for this intervention was an online Instagram community with Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) students as participants. For research, a cross-sectional observational health promotion design was used for this online health intervention, in conjunction with the Diffusion of Innovation Theory. The Medical Tune Competition was open to students from all university faculties. Process evaluation was done using the RE-AIM framework, while impact evaluation was conducted via a non-experimental post-test only design. A Google feedback form was distributed to the participating students, and descriptive analysis was performed using SPSS version 26. In total, 21 contestants participated whereby 85% of the feedback responses indicated that the programme had been enjoyable. All respondents were made aware that music could make them happy, and they stated that they would advise their friends or relatives to sing or enjoy music when stressed, 90.5% of the respondents felt music helped them relieve stress (4.43 ± 0.67), 85.7% believed that the Instagram platform was appropriate for this contest, and 14.3% suggested using Facebook or YouTube as a platform. The conclusion was that an online music competition held during the COVID-19 pandemic could be adopted and likely to be effective in raising awareness of music for stress management. In the future, innovators could develop and grow their own innovative e-health intervention programmes modelled on the Medical Tune initiative.
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spelling ums.eprints-342742022-09-27T03:13:06Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34274/ Stress Intervention Among University Students: Online Medical Tune Competition Naing Oo Tha Maher Fouad Sefein Beshay Yeap, Boon Tat Mohd Firdaus Mohd Hayati Mohammad Saffree Jeffree R735-854 Medical education. Medical schools. Research This innovative health intervention aimed to reduce stress among university students through interaction with music and developing awareness of the effect of music in stressful situations such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. The setting for this intervention was an online Instagram community with Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) students as participants. For research, a cross-sectional observational health promotion design was used for this online health intervention, in conjunction with the Diffusion of Innovation Theory. The Medical Tune Competition was open to students from all university faculties. Process evaluation was done using the RE-AIM framework, while impact evaluation was conducted via a non-experimental post-test only design. A Google feedback form was distributed to the participating students, and descriptive analysis was performed using SPSS version 26. In total, 21 contestants participated whereby 85% of the feedback responses indicated that the programme had been enjoyable. All respondents were made aware that music could make them happy, and they stated that they would advise their friends or relatives to sing or enjoy music when stressed, 90.5% of the respondents felt music helped them relieve stress (4.43 ± 0.67), 85.7% believed that the Instagram platform was appropriate for this contest, and 14.3% suggested using Facebook or YouTube as a platform. The conclusion was that an online music competition held during the COVID-19 pandemic could be adopted and likely to be effective in raising awareness of music for stress management. In the future, innovators could develop and grow their own innovative e-health intervention programmes modelled on the Medical Tune initiative. Penerbit UMS 2022 Article PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34274/1/FULL%20TEXT.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34274/2/ABSTRACT.pdf Naing Oo Tha and Maher Fouad Sefein Beshay and Yeap, Boon Tat and Mohd Firdaus Mohd Hayati and Mohammad Saffree Jeffree (2022) Stress Intervention Among University Students: Online Medical Tune Competition. Borneo Journal of Medical Sciences, 16. pp. 61-64. ISSN 1985-1758 (P-ISSN) , 2710-7353 (E-ISSN) https://jurcon.ums.edu.my/ojums/index.php/bjms/article/view/2883/2471 http://dx.doi.org/10.51200/bjms.vi.2883 http://dx.doi.org/10.51200/bjms.vi.2883
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Stress Intervention Among University Students: Online Medical Tune Competition
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title_full Stress Intervention Among University Students: Online Medical Tune Competition
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title_short Stress Intervention Among University Students: Online Medical Tune Competition
title_sort stress intervention among university students online medical tune competition
topic R735-854 Medical education. Medical schools. Research
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