Do medical students enjoy a good Quality of Life? A Cross-Sectional Survey
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 7
Abstract
Background: Quality of life is defined as individual perception of well-being, within one’s socio-cultural context or the satisfactory fulfilment of desires and pleasures that would lead to the accomplishments of their perception. This study was carried out to determine the level of such satisfaction among medical students. Participants and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, one hundred twenty-five students were invited to participate in the study being chosen through stratified random sampling. Twenty-five students from each the five classes of Gujranwala Medical School, Gujranwala, Pakistan, were invited. One hundred students completed the proforma containing WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire and socio-demographic characteristics. Results: According to the perception and response of the students, only one percent students had a very poor quality of life. 57% students were of the view that they have a good quality of life and 29% have answered the questionnaire indicating a very good quality of life in all four domains of WHOQOL-BREF. There was no significant effect of gender, year of study and living with family status on quality of life. Conclusion: This study demonstrates that the majority of the medical students have a good quality of life while a negligible number of them have a poor or very poor quality of life. Students are especially more satisfied with their physical health when compared with other domains of life and as usually observed, majority of them rarely have feelings of anxiety, depression and despair.
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Umar Farooq Dar, Usman Farooq Dar, Aroosa Zia, Amina Mirza
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