Assessment of Perceived Stress and Coping Strategies among Medical Students in Bijapur: A Cross Sectional Study
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 9
Abstract
Introduction: Students are subjected to different kinds of experiences which make them vulnerable to un-dergo a lot of stress. Medical educa-tion is inherently stressful and de-manding, and, students are likely to face stress mostly due to academic stressors. Methods: Study is a cross sectional study conducted at Al-Ameen med-ical college, Bijapur involving 148 first year undergraduate medical students. Results: The study reveals that all students are unmarried 148 (100%). Majority of them are males, be-longed to 17-18 age group, socioec-onomic status I, and, had nuclear family. 43 (29.1%) students suffer from stress. Study subjects have mean Perceived stress score 25.608+5.46 and Coping Self-Efficacy Score 157.514+ 37.35.The study reveals that stress was more common among students having low Coping Self-Efficacy Scores and low stress among students having more Coping Self-Efficacy Scores, which was statistically significant. Conclusion: The study gives us an understanding of the stress and the coping strategies used by under-graduate medical students to man-age stress. There is a further need to analyze the source of stressors.To combat stress students need to con-sider relaxation measures, proper rest, good sleep and timely food in-take.
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Farooq Farooq, Jannatbi Iti
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