Objective: The purpose of this study was to correlate the hypochondriacal concerns related to diseases with level of anxiety and depression symptoms among medical and engineering undergraduates. Study design and Setting: Cross sectional study was conducted among undergraduates of final year students of BUMDC (Bahria University Medical & Dental College) and engineering students from NUST- PNEC (NUST – Pakistan Navy Engineering College). Methodology: In this study; (99) final year medical students and (92) engineering students were recruited. In order to maintain consistency of age, students aging between 21–26 years were selected. Selected students were handed to fill the required ‘Self-administered Questionnaire’ comprising of demographic details, short health anxiety inventory, medical history and DASS (depression, anxiety and stress scale) which were completed on-site. Data was entered in SPSS version 21 and analyzed using Fisher’s exact test. P value < 0.05 was considered as statistically significant. Result: Out of 191 students in total from both the groups n=86 (45%) were females and n=105(55%) were males. There were 99 participants from MBBS and 92 from engineering. The participants’ ages ranged from 21-26 years with a mean= 23.95 (SD±2.29), both the cohorts belonged to approximately same age group. While assessing depression the responses were not very different for both the groups. When responses of depression scale were related to visits to psychiatrists or psychologist or psychotherapist a strong relationship was observed (p=0.012) in medical students cohort. Conclusion: The results of the study reflected comparable psychosocial strain at an elevated level among both student groups
Objective: To assess preference of first year MBBS students about teaching learning strategy used in Physiology course. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Bahria University Medical and Dental College (BUMDC). Period: October-December 2019. Material & Methods: A detailed questionnaire was given to the students of first year MBBS aged 19-21 years. Results: The ideal teaching method for learning physiology was found to be tutorials (70%). The ideal teaching aid for understanding physiology was agreed by (45%) of the students to be white board and marker followed by power point presentation (25%). The ideal duration of time for a lecture found to be was 45 minutes (55%). The ideal duration of time for a small group discussion was 45 minutes (60%) and preferred time slots for lectures was early morning 9am to 10:30am which was agreed by most of the students (80%) and for tutorials was 11am-1pm which was agreed by (55%) of the students. Preferred timeslot for lab skills was agreed by (35%) of students to be at 2-4pm. (80%) of students agreed that the most preferred quality of teacher as perceived by students is their ability to teach followed by knowledge (70%). Conclusion: This study results conclude that students prefer student centered teaching learning strategies in order to learn physiology.
Objective: To evaluate the depression on different stages (mild, moderate and severe) among undergraduate students of pre-clinical & clinical settings on the basis of gender. Study Design and Setting: The cross sectional study was carried out among undergraduate medical students of Bahria University medical and dental College (BUMDC) Karachi from September 2017 – December 2017. Methodology: The participants were 125 medical students of first year MBBS and 125 students of final year MBBS which were labeled as pre-clinical and clinical groups respectively. The survey instrument used was PHQ-9 scale. This scale divides depression into mild, moderate and severe categories with the help of scores. Percentage of students in different levels of depression was calculated in both the groups. Results: Mild depression was experienced more (39%) in pre-clinical medical students and (32%) in clinical students. On the other hand clinical medical students showed an upward trend for “severe depression” (19%) as compare to preclinical students (6%) as showed in Table 1. Gender based comparison was done between male and female students in pre-clinical and clinical groups separately. Strikingly, the results showed that females were more depressed than males in both cohorts. Conclusion: It was concluded that severe depression was equal in males and females in the preclinical group as compared to clinical group. Gender based comparison showed that severe depression was higher in females than males of clinical years whereas mild and moderate depression was also more frequents in females of clinical years.
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