A Study of Subjective Perception of Stress and Burnout among Students of A Medical College in Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Journal Title: Healthline - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
Introduction: Medicine is one of the most stressful fields of education and stress in medical students has multifactorial etiology. Students often suffer from burnout symptoms due to academic stressors and performance anxiety and can even resort to addictions and use of sleeping pills. However, students also employ various stress-management skills to cope up with such symptoms. Objectives: To determine prevalence of perceived stress/ burnout symptoms, factors affecting them, sleep disturbances, various coping mechanisms adopted by the students and role of parents/ friends in coping with such situations. Method: A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out at AMC MET Medical College, Ahmedabad. 300 students were included in the study as selected by stratified random sampling. Pre-designed, pre-tested and validated proforma was used for collecting information. Data was analysed with Microsoft Excel program and suitable statistical tests were applied wherever applicable. Results: In the present study, 69% of the students were residing in the hostels and male: female ratio was 1.83. Perception of stress/ burnout symptoms was present in 40.33% students with no statistically significant difference between boys and girls. Mean sleeping hours normally were 7.83 + 1.26 & during examination, it was 4.72 + 1.63 (Standard Error {SE}) between the means =0.19, Z=16.36, p<0.01, Highly Significant {HS}). Further, 178 (59.33%) students were worried most of the time during examinations. 103 (34.33%) students was getting a feeling of low self-confidence during the examinations. Listening to music and watching TV were most commonly practiced coping mechanisms and only 7% students were performing Yoga. Students preferred to talk with their friends about their stress over family. Boys were more stressed as compared to girls with Odds Ratio (OR) of 1.2 times. Conclusion: The prevalence of perceived stress and burnout symptoms was high in medical students and they also had less sleeping hours during examination. The practice of coping mechanisms was poor. They should be encouraged to talk about their stress. Also they should be taught and motivated to practice stress relaxation mechanisms to cope with such situations.
Authors and Affiliations
Sheetal Vyas, Mitali Solanki, Bhalodia Ronak, Bhatu Jaydeep, Chaudhari Ketul
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