| Journal: | Archives of clinical psychiatry |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000409854 |
| Authors: | Bassols, Ana Margareth Siqueira1 Carneiro, Bruna Brasil1 Guimaraes, Guilherme Correa1 Olabayashi, Lucas Mestre Seiki1 Carvalho, Felipe Gutierrez1 Silva, Anais Back da1 Cortes, Gabriela Neubarth1 Rohde, Luis Augusto Paim1 Eizirik, Claudio Laks1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Season: | Ene-Feb |
| Volumen: | 42 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Pages: | 1-5 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Document type: | Estadística o encuesta |
| Approach: | Analítico |
| English abstract | Medical training is a stressing situation, making medical students vulnerable to psychiatric disorders, such as depression and anxiety. Objective The study aimed to assess the prevalence of stress and coping in students of a public medical school in Brazil, comparing the groups from the first and sixth years of training. Methods Through a cross-sectional, observational study, a sample of 232 first and sixth-year regularly registered medical students has been evaluated. Students filled a socio-demographic questionnaire, the Lipp Inventory of Stress Symptoms (ISSL), and the Coping Strategies Inventory (CSI). Results From the total sample of 232 students, 110 were first-year students and 122 sixth-year students. Stress symptoms were significantly higher in first-year students (49.1%) than in the sixth-year group (33.6%; p = 0.018). Variables significantly associated with stress were: year of the training (1st year > 6th year), income (lower > higher income), satisfaction with the training (dissatisfied > satisfied) and the use of escape/avoidance copying strategy (positive association). Discussion Considering the higher stress symptoms among first-year medical students and the positive association of the escape/avoidance copying strategy with stress, strategies must be developed to enable students starting medical school to be better at coping with this stressful situations |
| Disciplines: | Medicina |
| Keyword: | Psiquiatría, Salud pública, Educación superior, Estrés, Estudiantes de medicina, Estrategias de enfrentamiento, Adaptación psicológica |
| Keyword: | Medicine, Psychiatry, Public health, Higher education, Stress, Medical students, Coping strategies, Psychological adjustment |
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