Medical Students' Stress, Psychological Morbidity, and Coping Strategies: a Cross-Sectional Study from Pakistan

Autor: Khaula Fatima Tariq, Masood Jawaid, Nazish Imran, Muhammad Ijaz Pervez, Imran Ijaz Haider
Rok vydání: 2014
Předmět:
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Coping (psychology)
Students
Medical
020205 medical informatics
Adolescent
Cross-sectional study
education
Alternative medicine
02 engineering and technology
medicine.disease_cause
Logistic regression
Education
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Sex Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
Adaptation
Psychological
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
medicine
Prevalence
Psychological stress
Humans
Pakistan
030212 general & internal medicine
Psychiatry
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
business.industry
Mental Disorders
Stressor
General Medicine
Psychiatry and Mental health
Distress
Cross-Sectional Studies
Logistic Models
Support system
Female
business
Stress
Psychological
Clinical psychology
Education
Medical
Undergraduate
Zdroj: Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry. 40(1)
ISSN: 1545-7230
Popis: The authors studied the prevalence of psychological morbidity, sources and severity of stresses, as well as coping strategies in Pakistani medical students. Medical students in Lahore, Pakistan, completed a cross-sectional, self-administered questionnaire in 2013 on the sources and severity of various stressors. The General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12) and Brief COPE assessed the psychological morbidity and coping strategies. Out of 1500 students, 527 responded to the survey. The prevalence of psychological morbidity was 23.3 %; 52.3 % respondents showed evidence of distress. By logistic regression analysis, GHQ-12 caseness was associated with being male and occurrence of health-related stressors. The most common stressors were related to academic concerns. Coping strategies showed variation by GHQ-caseness. The significant psychological morbidity and distress warrants establishing support systems to support students and bringing about evidence-based changes to teaching and evaluation systems. Adequate counseling facilities should be made available and students encouraged to seek help.
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