scholarly journals Selection and Use of Online Learning Resources by First-Year Medical Students: Cross-Sectional Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. e17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Judd ◽  
Kristine Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
First Year ◽  
Learning Resources ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Online Learning Resources ◽  
First Year Medical Students

scholarly journals Depression, Anxiety, and Stress among First-year Medical Students in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (236) ◽  
Author(s):  
Priyanka Shah ◽  
Alisha Sapkota ◽  
Anjeel Chhetri
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Early Years ◽  
First Year ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
First Year Medical Students

Introduction: Medical students are prone to develop stress, anxiety and depression owing to vastness of curriculum, hectic lifestyle, economic burden, and competitiveness of medical field. The study aims to find out the prevalence of depression, anxiety, and stress among first-year medical students. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 91 first-year students of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery enrolled in a tertiary care hospital using depression, anxiety, and stress-42 scale along with a questionnaire regarding sociodemographic and stressors for their problems. Whole sampling was done and the study was conducted between June and July 2018 after taking ethical approval from the Research and Institutional Review Committee (Reference Number: 57-074/075). Results: The highest prevalence among undergraduate medical students was found to be anxiety 54 (59.3%), followed by stress 41 (45.1%) and depression 40 (44%). Conclusions: Almost half of the first-year medical students reported some level of depression, anxiety, or stress. It is important to implement programs in the early years of the medical school from the administrative level to help and identify students suffering from depression, anxiety, and stress.

scholarly journals Empathy in senior year and first year medical students: a cross-sectional study

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunice Magalhães ◽  
Ana P Salgueira ◽  
Patrício Costa ◽  
Manuel J Costa
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
First Year ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Senior Year ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
First Year Medical Students

scholarly journals Resilience and sense of coherence in first year medical students - a cross-sectional study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Luibl ◽  
Julia Traversari ◽  
Friedrich Paulsen ◽  
Michael Scholz ◽  
Pascal Burger
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Female Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Population Average ◽  
First Year Medical Students

Abstract Background: A broad range of high-quality studies show that medical students often have a significantly deteriorated mental health status. Although starting medical school with values comparable to the population average, only a few semesters later, medical undergraduates show increased rates of psychological risk states and some manifest mental illnesses, such as burnout and depression. In our survey we intentionally assessed mental health parameters from a salutogenetic, i.e. resource-oriented point of view. Methods: We examined first-year medical students in a cross-sectional study and assessed sense of coherence (SOC) and resilience as parameters from the salutogenesis model by Antonovsky in a structured way using validated, self-administered questionnaires. In total, we examined 236 students of human medicine, dentistry and molecular medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).Results: Our analyses showed significantly higher values of resilience among male students compared to female students. In contrast, even though a significant correlation between resilience and SOC was observed, only a non-significantly lower value of SOC was found in female students. Compared to the population average our medical students in their first year of study showed significantly lower values for resilience and SOC. Conclusion: Resilience and SOC are known to correlate with psychological stress (burnout parameters) and depression. In order to keep protective factors like SOC and resilience in medical students at a good and healthy level we see the necessity to address that problem proactively and also from the teaching side. Integrating training focused on the preservation of the students´ own mental health into the medical curriculum from the beginning of university courses, and throughout the whole medical study course, is essential and should be an obligatory training goal. Based on our study results, we also deem it necessary to think about ways to adapt the measures for the gender-specific needs of our students, e.g. dependent on their biological gender.

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