Differences in Perceived Stress, Depression, and Medical Symptoms among Medical, Nursing, and Physician Assistant Students: A Latent Class Analysis

Hernandez, Marlow; Blavo, Cyril; Hardigan, Patric C.; Pérez, Alina María Segredo; Hagen, Kathleen

doi:10.1007/bf03355116

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“…Moreover, previous research found that mindfulness training was effective for surgery residents and impacted brain function (Lebares et al 2019 ). However, it remains possible that the app was more effective for PA students and more research is critical for understanding the mental health and wellness needs of PA students, which may be different than the needs of other trainees (Hernandez et al 2010 ). In sum, a thorough evaluation of these effects, and their potential benefit to trainees in the health professions, would require a randomized, controlled clinical trial-type design, for which the present study provides only preliminary data.…”

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The Impact of App-Delivered Mindfulness Meditation on Functional Connectivity and Self-Reported Mindfulness Among Health Profession Trainees

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Objectives Previous research indicates that mindfulness meditation reduces anxiety and depression and enhances well-being. We examined the impact of app-delivered mindfulness meditation on resting state functional MRI (fMRI) connectivity among physician assistant (PA) students and surgery residents. Methods PA students and residents were randomized to receive a popular meditation app or to wait-list control group. Before and after the 8-week meditation period, we acquired fMRI scans of participants' resting state, and participants completed a self-report measure of mindfulness. We used a 2 × 2, within-and between-group factorial design and leveraged a whole-brain connectome approach to examine changes in within-and between-network connectivity across the entire brain, and to examine whether changes in connectivity were associated with app use or to changes in self-reported mindfulness. Results Meditation practitioners exhibited significantly stronger connectivity between the frontoparietal network and the left and right nucleus accumbens and between the default mode (DMN) and salience networks, among other regions. Mindfulness practice time was correlated with increased connectivity between the lateral parietal cortex and the supramarginal gyrus, which were also positively correlated with increased scores on the "Describing" subscale of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire between baseline and post-meditation. These findings are consistent with previous research indicating that mindfulness-based interventions alter functional connectivity within the DMN and between the DMN and other networks both during meditation and at rest, as well as increased connectivity in systems important for emotion and reward. Conclusions Recent commentaries call for healthcare provider and trainee wellness programs that are sustainable and preventive in nature rather than reactive; these data indicate that even brief sessions of app-delivered mindfulness practice are associated with functional connectivity changes in a dose-dependent manner.

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The Impact of App-Delivered Mindfulness Meditation on Functional Connectivity and Self-Reported Mindfulness Among Health Profession Trainees

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“…It is important to recognize that health risks are not distributed equally and separately among the students; rather, they tend to occur in clusters in definite population subgroups (Almutairi et al, 2018;Torquato et al, 2016). In the published literature, few studies have assessed the co-occurrence of complex groupings of lifestyle behaviors using LCA technique among nursing students (El Ansari & Berg-Beckhoff, 2017;Han et al, 2019;Hernandez, Blavo & Hardigan, 2010). As future health care practitioners, nursing students serve as role models for healthy lifestyles for clients/ patients.…”

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Lifestyle behaviors among undergraduate nursing students: A latent class analysis

Macêdo

Mussi

Sheets

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Research in Nursing & Health

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This is a cross‐sectional study whose objective was to identify clustering of lifestyle behaviors among undergraduate nursing students to inform health promotion efforts and improve health outcomes later in life. All 353 undergraduate nursing students from the School of Nursing in a public university, Bahia, Brazil were invited to participate. The inclusion and exclusion criteria were according to the major project. Participants must be enrolled and attending the 1st to 10th semester, with a minimum age of 18 years. Participants were excluded if they had any physical disabilities that limited the collection of anthropometric measures or were completing an internship off‐campus. A total of 286 undergraduate nursing students met the criteria and completed the survey. The questionnaires included standardized measures for demographic, academic, and lifestyle behaviors (e.g., tobacco use, alcohol use, physical activity level, sedentary behavior, and fruits and vegetables consumed). Latent class analysis was performed to identify any clustering of lifestyle behaviors. Descriptive analyses indicated that 3.1% of the students were smokers, 23.1% consumed alcohol, 34.3% were inactive, 85.0% were sedentary, and 80.8% did not consume recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables. Latent class analysis produced four distinct subtypes of health risk: (a) low‐health risk (33.57%); (b) moderate‐health risk (27.97%); (c) high‐health risk (19.58%); and (d) very high‐health risk (18.88%). Approximately 38.5% of students were in the very high or high‐risk classes. The proportion of students with very high and high‐health risks emphasizes the importance of health promotion programs for university nursing students.

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“…3 One study also demonstrated that PA students experienced higher levels of stress than the general population, 4 and that stress can affect sleeping habits, academic performance, and lead to pathologic mental health states. 1,3,4…”

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Association Between Stress and Program Length in Underrepresented Minority Physician Assistant Students

McWeeney¹

2022

J Physician Assist Educ

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Introduction The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a relationship between physician assistant (PA) program length and stress measures in PA students, particularly PA students classified as underrepresented minorities in medicine. The stress measures included emotional and physical well-being. Methods The 2019 End of Program survey data were analyzed using multiple regression to determine if emotional and physical well-being could be predicted by PA program length, age, gender, PA school debt, and UR minority in medicine status. Results Shorter PA programs were associated with higher physical well-being scores, although there was no difference between UR minority in medicine and non-UR minority in medicine students. Older students, males, and students with higher levels of PA school debt had lower scores for emotional and physical well-being. Discussion Shorter program lengths should be considered for optimal physical well-being in all students. Further research is needed to understand optimal program length and experiences of these students.

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Differences in Perceived Stress, Depression, and Medical Symptoms among Medical, Nursing, and Physician Assistant Students: A Latent Class Analysis

Cited by 12 publications

References 27 publications

The Impact of App-Delivered Mindfulness Meditation on Functional Connectivity and Self-Reported Mindfulness Among Health Profession Trainees

The Impact of App-Delivered Mindfulness Meditation on Functional Connectivity and Self-Reported Mindfulness Among Health Profession Trainees

Lifestyle behaviors among undergraduate nursing students: A latent class analysis

Association Between Stress and Program Length in Underrepresented Minority Physician Assistant Students

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