Perceived psychological stress among undergraduate medical students: Role of academic factors

Chowdhury, Ranadip; Mukherjee, Abhijit; Mitra, Kaushik; Naskar, Somnath; Karmakar, Prasanta Ray; Lahiri, Saibendu Kumar

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“…A study done in Kolkata by Chowdhury et al showed 46.3% of students had high stress. 12 This is very high compared to the result in our study where only 6% experienced severe stress. Another study done in Mangalore by Brahmbhatt et al showed prevalence of stress among study participants to be 42.5%.…”

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“…10 However it was less than that found in a study done in Kolkatta by Chowdhury et al where the mean and SD were 29.58 and 6.6 respectively. 12 Another study done in by Brahmbhatt et al also showed a higher mean score of 27.53. 13 The topography and easy pace of life in Mysore, which is considered as the cultural capital of Karnataka with relatively good quality of life can be some of the reasons for the lesser stress experienced by the students of this college because another study on stress in Mysore by Kumar et al also showed a less prevalence of Stress.…”

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“…11 The other studies done by Chowdhury et al, Panchu et al, Melaku et al all showed a similar result with academic related stressor being the major contributor of stress. 12,22,23 The vastness of the medical syllabus and lack of proper time management lessons for the students are the main reason for academic causes being the major stressor.…”

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Perceived stress and source of stress among undergraduate medical students of Government Medical College, Mysore

Nivetha

Ahmed

Prashantha

2018

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Stress is defined as a condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize. Medical school is recognized as a stressful environment that may have a negative effect on students’ academic performance, physical health, and psychosocial well-being. This stress when it exceeds the limit of tolerability causes various physical and mental health problems. Identifying this root cause will help us to put a barrier to many future mental health problems in a student’s life.Methods: It was a cross-sectional study done in Mysore Medical College among undergraduate students. Perceived stress scale was used to assess the level of stress and Medical student’s Stressor questionnaire was used to assess the source of stress.Results: A total of 303 students were included in the final analysis. Among them 51.5% were male and 48.5% were females. The age group of the students ranged between 18 and 24 with a mean age of 20.48 and standard deviation (SD) of 0.4. The mean and SD of PSS score is 17.7 and 5.5. The prevalence of mild, moderate and severe stress was 20%, 74% and 6% respectively. Majority of the students (40.9%) considered academic related stressors to be the source of high stress.Conclusions: In our study though majority of the students were stressed (80%), only 6% were severely stressed. The coping strategies adopted by the students like resorting to sleep and music/dance appeared to be appropriate methods of handling stress.

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Perceived stress and source of stress among undergraduate medical students of Government Medical College, Mysore

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2018

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“…10 Another study done in by Brahmbhatt et al also showed a higher mean score of 27.53. 11 The easy pace of life in Bikaner, may be the reason for the lesser stress experienced by the students of this college. In our study mean PSS score was significantly higher for female gender.…”

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Study of perceived stress and stressors among undergraduate medical students

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Shekhawat

et al. 2019

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Recently there is growing concern about stress during undergraduate’s medical training. Undue stress may cause adverse health consequences and lowered academic performance. Objective of the study was to know perceived level of stress and its causes among undergraduate medical students.Methods: A cross sectional survey, using self-structured questionnaire, was conducted among 65 third year medical students. Questionnaires were related to socio-demographic profile, perceived stress scale [PSS] and 32 item list of stressors (grouped as health related, academic and psycho-social). Student’s responses were recorded on five point Likert scale.Results: Mean PSS score was 25.53±5.55 and was significantly higher for females. Psycho-social stressors occurred most frequently, followed by the academic causes.Conclusions: Medical undergraduates face high level of stress and the causes may be varied. They need more interaction, counselling and support from faculty to relieve their stress.

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“…Sometimes, psychological suffering is so severe that it could lead them to suicidal ideation [3,4] or dropout from university. The most common stressors that could persuade mental illness and emotional distress include but are not limited to academic overload (e.g., assignments, exams), sleeping problems, transition to a new environment, not being able to enjoy day-to-day activities, loneliness, being away from home, lack of self-efficacy and optimism, and not being able to make new friends [5][6][7][8][9].…”

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Crowd of Oz: A Crowd-Powered Social Robotics System for Stress Management

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Coping with stress is crucial for a healthy lifestyle. In the past, a great deal of research has been conducted to use socially assistive robots as a therapy to alleviate stress and anxiety related problems. However, building a fully autonomous social robot which can deliver psycho-therapeutic solutions is a very challenging endeavor due to limitations in artificial intelligence (AI). To overcome AI’s limitations, researchers have previously introduced crowdsourcing-based teleoperation methods, which summon the crowd’s input to control a robot’s functions. However, in the context of robotics, such methods have only been used to support the object manipulation, navigational, and training tasks. It is not yet known how to leverage real-time crowdsourcing (RTC) to process complex therapeutic conversational tasks for social robotics. To fill this gap, we developed Crowd of Oz (CoZ), an open-source system that allows Softbank’s Pepper robot to support such conversational tasks. To demonstrate the potential implications of this crowd-powered approach, we investigated how effectively, crowd workers recruited in real-time can teleoperate the robot’s speech, in situations when the robot needs to act as a life coach. We systematically varied the number of workers who simultaneously handle the speech of the robot (N = 1, 2, 4, 8) and investigated the concomitant effects for enabling RTC for social robotics. Additionally, we present Pavilion, a novel and open-source algorithm for managing the workers’ queue so that a required number of workers are engaged or waiting. Based on our findings, we discuss salient parameters that such crowd-powered systems must adhere to, so as to enhance their performance in response latency and dialogue quality.

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Perceived psychological stress among undergraduate medical students: Role of academic factors

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Perceived stress and source of stress among undergraduate medical students of Government Medical College, Mysore

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Study of perceived stress and stressors among undergraduate medical students

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