Medical student psychological distress and academic performance

Dendle, Claire; Baulch, Julie; Pellicano, Rebecca; Hay, Margaret; Lichtwark, Irene Tatjana; Ayoub, Sally; Clarke, David M.; Morand, Eric Francis; Kumar, Arunaz; Leech, Michelle; Horne, Kylie

doi:10.1080/0142159x.2018.1427222

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“…Assessment of psychological morbidity or mental health status of the respondents using the GHQ12 was a key finding in this study. The prevalence of psychological morbidity was 66.76%.This was found to be high compared to other studies [18,19,22,23]. However, studies conducted among medical students in Australia, England and Malaysia, which used the same cut off as the present study, showed comparable results as observed in the present study [14,24,25] Table 2.…”

Section: Mental Health Statussupporting

confidence: 78%

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Mental Health Status Among Moroccan Medical Students at the Cadi Ayyad University

Benali¹,

Hajar²,

Jalal³

et al. 2019

Int J Psychiatr Res

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Section: Mental Health Statussupporting

confidence: 78%

“…The reason behind this remains unclear. However, other studies reported contrary results which indicated associations with year level [22,23,[37][38][39].…”

Section: Mental Health Statusmentioning

confidence: 96%

Mental Health Status Among Moroccan Medical Students at the Cadi Ayyad University

Benali¹,

Hajar²,

Jalal³

et al. 2019

Int J Psychiatr Res

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“…Based on the results from numerous studies, there is con icting evidence regarding the impact of psychological stress on the academic performance of students. Dendlea et al found poor correlation between psychological stress and grade point average, which cannot be attributed to the students' intrinsic fear of poor performance [25]. In addition, there is limited data on the subtypes of students' mental state using different psychological scales.…”

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Academic performance and subtypes of psychological traits in undergraduate nursing students: A latent class analysis

Zhou

2020

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Background: Undergraduate nursing students often encounter emotional problems due to academic stress. However, researchers have primarily focused on the impact of stressors, rather than understanding the subtypes of psychological state among students.Objectives: To identify subgroups of psychological traits among undergraduate nursing students using latent class analysis (LCA), and to examine the relationship between subgroups and exam failure risk.Design and Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed from May to July 2019. The Ruminative Responses Scale, Learning Burnout Questionnaire and Psychological Capital Scale were used to evaluate students’ psychological traits. Subjects were categorized into subgroups by latent class analysis. Cross-sectional comparisons and longitudinal regression analyses were subsequently performed.Settings and Participants: A total of 379 undergraduate nursing students from three medical colleges in Shanghai were investigated by cluster sampling method.Results: A total of four latent classes were identified based on the mean scores of rumination, learning burnout and psychological capital: Class 1 – General group (N=181, 47.76%); Class 2 – Negative psychologically dominated group (N=54, 14.25%); Class 3 – Positive psychologically dominated group (N=65, 17.15%); and Class 4 – Ambivalence psychological group (N=79, 20.84%). Students belonging into Class 1 and 2 displayed a higher rate of exam failure compared with those in Class 3 and 4 (p<0.05). Regression analysis showed that Class 1 (OR=2.108, 95%CI 1.240-4.118, p=0.006) and Class 2 (OR=2.694, 95%CI 1.229-6.293, p=0.016) independently predicted exam failure among undergraduate nursing students after adjusting for age, gender, grade and other academic related factors.Conclusions: Our findings provide practical implications for effective interventions that target each specific subgroup. Undergraduate nursing students with “Negative psychologically dominated group” were at a higher risk of exam failure. Urgent attention should be paid to address issues associated with psychological coping in students and their effect on learning outcomes.

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“…Poor correlation was noted between psychological distress and academic performance by study too. 22 Sullivan recommendations for conscious efforts to regulate emotion, behavior, physiology and the environment in response to stressful events or circumstances may be an effective preventive measure. 23…”

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Stressors perceived by the clinical undergraduate medical students towards the end of course

Habib

Rahman

Manara

et al. 2019

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Journal

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Response or reaction of the mind to the pressure of life is stress. Medical students of Bangladesh are in stress to meet the demands of the curriculum. This study was conducted on the regularly passed final year students of a medical college to find out the nature of stresses perceived by them. The response was collected on a validated structured set of questionnaire, 3 weeks prior to the University level summative examination and 63 students (33 male and 30 female) participated in the study. Stress was expressed in five levels and scored as 0 to 4. Academic related factors were identified as maximum stress provoking (2.5 ± 1.3) than group activity (1.6 ± 1.4), drive (1.4 ± 1.5), teaching-learning (2.3 ± 1.3), personnel (1.8 ± 1.6) or social (1.9 ± 1.5) related factors. Of that group of stress, ‘falling behind reading schedule’ and ‘large amount of content to be learned’ were revealed as heavy stressors. Examination was identified as a severe stressor in 42.4% male, but was marked less (16.7%) in the female. ‘Too much restriction in the campus’ was observed as heavy stressors among the factors other than the academic related stressors. Students may be motivated to develop a coping strategy for academic and teaching-learning related stress.

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Medical student psychological distress and academic performance

Cited by 57 publications

References 17 publications

Mental Health Status Among Moroccan Medical Students at the Cadi Ayyad University

Mental Health Status Among Moroccan Medical Students at the Cadi Ayyad University

Academic performance and subtypes of psychological traits in undergraduate nursing students: A latent class analysis

Stressors perceived by the clinical undergraduate medical students towards the end of course

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