Cat fit and bull fight: Assessment of aggression in medical students as a prelude to conduct violence in future

Autor: Jenash Acharya, Naresh Manandhar, Jemish Acharya, Abhishek Pant, Geshu Lama
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of Kathmandu Medical College. 8:178-182
ISSN: 2091-1793
2091-1785
DOI: 10.3126/jkmc.v8i4.32381
Popis: Background: The intensity of aggression present in any person determines his/her threat to conduct violent and impulsive act against members of the society or else family, friends or foes, which necessitates a crucial analytical instrument for identification of such behaviour in smaller groups of societies. Objectives: To assess a group of medical students from Kathmandu, Nepal for potential risk they bear to conduct violence in future medical practice. Methodology: A self-administered pre-validated Bush and Perry Aggression Questionnaire was used in this descriptive cross-sectional study to analyse emotional and cognitive component among 235 medical students of Nepal between February and May 2019. A Likert-type bipolar scale was used for response format ranging from one (extremely uncharacteristic) to five (extremely characteristic). Questionnaire explored four factors: physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger and hostility. Mean scores of aggression were computed and compared with gender and level of education by conducting independent t-test with level of significance at 0.05. Results: The mean scores were 20.73± 6.33, 13.97± 3.87, 18.79± 5.20 and 20.17±6.68, for physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger and hostility respectively. Males had higher score of physical aggression statistically significant at p0.05) when compared between sexes, and level of education (second semester and seventh semester students). Conclusion: Male medical students were more prone to hostility and physical aggression than female students who were more liable (statistically insignificant) to verbal aggression and anger.
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