Associations between symptoms of attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder and life satisfaction in medical students: the mediating effect of resilience

Shi, Meng; Liu, Li; Sun, Xiao; Wang, Lie

doi:10.1186/s12909-018-1261-8

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“…Each item received a score ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree), and the total score was calculated to indicate the students’ overall level of life satisfaction. The Chinese version of the scale demonstrated good validity and reliability among medical students in previous studies [28, 29], and the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for the scale in the present study was 0.882.…”

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Empathy, burnout, life satisfaction, correlations and associated socio-demographic factors among Chinese undergraduate medical students: an exploratory cross-sectional study

Wang

Shi

et al. 2019

BMC Med Educ

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Background Medical education is widely known to be a demanding process that may cause various mental health problems, such as burnout, which can lead to lowered levels of life satisfaction among medical students. Research shows that empathy is negatively correlated with burnout, but there are few studies on the relationship among empathy, burnout and life satisfaction in medical students. The objective of the present study is to explore the correlations of empathy and burnout with life satisfaction and the associated socio-demographic factors among Chinese undergraduate medical students. Methods In this cross-sectional study, 1271 undergraduate medical students (age 19.42 ± 1.34 years, 36% male) from 1st to 4th grades completed questionnaires including the Interpersonal Reactivity Index Chinese version (IRI-C), the Maslach Burnout Inventory Modified Chinese version (MBI-MC), the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) and socio-demographic characteristics. Statistical analyses included Student’s t-test, one-way ANOVA, post hoc Bonferroni tests, hierarchical linear regression analysis and general linear model-univariate full factorial model. Results Over four academic years, medical students’ empathy levels declined, but their burnout levels almost plateaued and their life satisfaction levels witnessed an initial fall before a rebound. Empathy was correlated with students’ age and grade, and burnout was associated with students’ maternal education. Significant differences in life satisfaction were detected with regard to medical students’ age, academic year, the number of children in the family, place of residence and parents’ educational levels. Conclusions Empathy explained 0.6% of the variance in life satisfaction in contrast to 13.7% of the variance explained by burnout in life satisfaction. Although empathy did not have a main effect on life satisfaction, there was an interaction effect of empathy and burnout on life satisfaction among students of high and low empathy and burnout levels. Students with high levels of empathy and low levels of burnout were most satisfied with life. Medical institutions and related authorities need to find effective measures to enhance students’ empathy levels and reduce burnout to improve their life satisfaction.

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Empathy, burnout, life satisfaction, correlations and associated socio-demographic factors among Chinese undergraduate medical students: an exploratory cross-sectional study

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Shi

et al. 2019

BMC Med Educ

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“…Likewise in Kenya, the high prevalence of ADHD symptoms among medical students, as in the present study, was also found using the same measurement (23.7%), and the rate decreased to 7.8% when the full ASRS symptom checklist was applied [46]. In contrast was a study among Chinese medical students using the 6-item screener reporting a prevalence of 6.9% [47]. These unrealistically high and inconsistent prevalence rates highlighted the problem of validity of the screening tool of ASRS and methods used as revealed before by other investigators [48,49].…”

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“…The level of addiction is categorized by non-internet addiction (0-30), mild (31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40)(41)(42)(43)(44)(45)(46)(47)(48)(49), moderate and severe internet addiction (80-100). The Thai version of IAT showed an excellent reliability of Cronbach's alpha of 0.85 [36] .…”

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Prevalence of ADHD symptoms and their correlations with mental health-related variables among medical student

Boonnag¹,

Siritikun²,

Chalanun³

et al. 2020

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Objectives Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurobehavioral development disorder contributed to social difficulties and affective problems. ADHD was evidently related to perceived stress, internet addiction and depression, leading to academic problems. However, ADHD symptoms among young medical student remains underreported. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of ADHD and explore the association between ADHD symptoms and mental health-related conditions among medical students. Results Among 124 participants of first year medical students in Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 78 (62.9%) were female. The average age was 18.7 (SD 0.7). Thirty-one (25%) were considered as having ADHD symptoms based on the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale screener (ASRS). The group with ADHD symptoms showed higher scores on the internet addiction test core (t = 3.27, p = .001), perceived stress scale (t = 2.94, p = .004) and Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale (t = 3.04, p = .003). No difference was found between groups regarding depression and perceived social support scores. However, the total score of ASRS appeared to significantly correlate with all these mental health- related variables. The relatively high prevalent may have contributed to invalid items of ASRS, for which a new or revised scale is needed.

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“…Each item is rated on a 5-point Likert-type scale (from 0 = “not true at all” to 4 = “true nearly all the time”), with higher scores indicating a stronger degree of resilience. The instrument’s reliability and validity is further evidenced by widespread use of the CD-RISC in research on Chinese students (43). In this study, the Cronbach’s alpha of the CD-RISC was 0.79.…”

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Relationship Between Stressful Life Events and Sleep Quality: Rumination as a Mediator and Resilience as a Moderator

Wang

et al. 2019

Front. Psychiatry

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Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between stressful life events and sleep quality and to probe the role of rumination and resilience in the relationship. Method: The Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Checklist, Ruminative Responses Scale, Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale, and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index were used among 1,065 college students. Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS) 20.0 and the SPSS macro Process, which were specifically developed for assessing complex models including both mediators and moderators, were used to analyze the data. Results: High scores of stressful life events predicted worse sleep quality. Rumination partially mediated the relations between stressful life events and sleep quality. Resilience moderated the direct and indirect paths leading from stressful life events to sleep quality. Conclusions: The results demonstrate that stressful life events can directly affect the sleep quality of college students and indirectly through rumination. Additionally, increasing psychological resilience could decrease both the direct effect and the indirect effect of stressful life events affecting sleep quality. The results of this study may contribute to a better understanding of the effects, as well as the paths and conditions, of stressful life events on sleep quality in college students. Moreover, these findings can provide constructive suggestions for improving college students’ sleep quality.

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Associations between symptoms of attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder and life satisfaction in medical students: the mediating effect of resilience

Cited by 26 publications

References 47 publications

Empathy, burnout, life satisfaction, correlations and associated socio-demographic factors among Chinese undergraduate medical students: an exploratory cross-sectional study

Empathy, burnout, life satisfaction, correlations and associated socio-demographic factors among Chinese undergraduate medical students: an exploratory cross-sectional study

Prevalence of ADHD symptoms and their correlations with mental health-related variables among medical student

Relationship Between Stressful Life Events and Sleep Quality: Rumination as a Mediator and Resilience as a Moderator

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