Co-relation of socio-economic status with Revised- Life Orientation Test (LOT-R) outcome in health professional students
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 11
Abstract
Abstract: Medical education has and will be stressful in terms of psychological well-being mainly and physical strain. This stress is associated with various factors some of them are individual’s attitude and approach towards workload, socio economic status, interest to join the program. These affect the academic performance of students which further affect their focus over the course taught.To find correlation of socioeconomic status (SES), Revised Life Orientation test score (LOT-R), academic score (AS) and willingness to join the course in first year medical students of two private medical institutes of India.250 students enrolled for academic year 2015-16 in medicine program in institutes of Sumandeep Vidyapeeth (SV), Vadodara and National Institute of Medical Science (NIMS), Jaipur were considered. Non-randomized and purposive study was done by providing survey questionnaire to the students. Average academic score of Anatomy course was used for analysis excluding physiology and biochemistry due to non-availability of tangible data at the time of study. Data was collected, analyzed statistically using SPSS Version23.138 students from SV and 100 from NIMS were included as per filled questionnaire and academic score results. Statistical significance value between the groups in SES, LOT-R score and Academic score was observed in NIMS institute but not for SV. Low level correlation (.214) was observed in academic score of NIMS students with their LOT-R score level. Statistical significance as per gender in SES, LOT-R score and academic score was observed for NIMS not SV students.In NIMS, Jaipur there are certain positive factors which have modified the academic performance of the students while no such effect is observed among SV students. There are hidden factors affecting students’ performance which needs to be explored further. Keywords:Optimism, socio-economic status, academic performance, interest, medical students
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Dulloo P, Vedi N, Gandotra A, Gupta UK
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