Reassuring the medical students’ disease – Health related anxiety among medical students

Azuri, Joseph; Ackshota, Nissim; Vinker, Shlomo

doi:10.3109/0142159x.2010.490282

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“…Additional correlation of the falsehood-items with the BDI-II items demonstrated no link. An explanation of the finding might be the so-called “medical students’ disease” [ 42 ], an incorrect interpretation of certain physical symptoms and a normal phenomenon especially in the early phase of medical training. It is acceptable that this is also the case in students of physiotherapy.…”

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“ABC”—The Awareness-Body-Chart: A new tool assessing body awareness

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BackgroundDespite the importance of body awareness for health and well-being there is still a lack of valid assessment tools to scan proper body awareness. To respond to the limitations of questionnaires (reading/interpretation problems) the Awareness-Body-Chart (ABC) was designed to assess body awareness by colouring 51 regions according to their awareness. The objective of this study was to investigate the psychometric characteristics of the ABC.MethodsIn a questionnaire-study, 106 students in Graz (79 females, 27 males, age median 21 (IQR 20–23) years) filled in the ABC, furthermore a German body awareness questionnaire „KEKS”, and the Beck Depression Inventory II. Factor structure, internal consistency, and retest reliability of the ABC were investigated. Correlations of the ABC with the KEKS and the Beck Depression Inventory II and comparisons of subgroups were conducted.ResultsThrough factor analyses, 14 factors with clear assignments to body parts could be categorized: cranium, face, cervical/lumbar region, chest/abdomen, back, shoulder, upper arm, lower arm/elbow, hand, genital area, thigh/hip, knee, lower leg, and foot. The 14 body parts and the total score showed acceptable to high Cronbach’s alphas (α = .64 - .97). The test-retest reliability showed values between ρ = .71 and ρ = .96. The correlation of the ABC and KEKS (r = .66, p < .001) confirmed validity. Further indications of validity could be seen in comparisons of subgroups and in correlations with the Beck Depression Inventory II.ConclusionThe ABC proved good psychometric properties with acceptable to high internal consistency, acceptable to high retest reliability and high construct validity. It is an easy-to-use tool for clinical settings and research. The ABC opens new insights into body awareness-patterns of various subgroups.

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“ABC”—The Awareness-Body-Chart: A new tool assessing body awareness

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“…Azuri et al [16] noted a significant prevalence of psychosomatic disorder when enrolling for clinical posting with a significant decrease later on. Furthermore, in one Australian study, the prevalence of somatization among Australian general practitioners revealed a higher prevalence of 18.6% which is more than that seen in our study [17].…”

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Psychosomatic problems among medical students: a myth or reality?

Chinawa

Nwokocha

Manyike

et al. 2016

Int J Ment Health Syst

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BackgroundMedical students are exposed to stress and this can predispose them to psychological and behavioral consequences.MethodsPsychosomatic disorders were investigated among 385 medical students from two teaching hospitals using a stratified random sampling. The Enugu somatization Scale (ESS) was used to evaluate for presence of somatization in the participants. Statistical analysis was done with the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPPS) version 19 (Chicago IL).ResultsA total of 385 medical students with a calculated mean age of 23.55 ± 3.33 years were recruited in this study. The prevalence of psychosomatic disorder was 55 (14.3%) with prevalence among males 33 (14.2%) and among females 22 (14.4%). Based on features, 44 (11.4%) had head features while 30 (7.8%) had body features of psychosomatic disorder respectively. Similar proportion of both males and females (about 14% each) had psychosomatic disorder. There was no statistically significant difference ( = 0.002, p = 0.966). Students aged 24 years and below had similar proportion of psychosomatic disorder 38 (14.3%) with those aged over 24 years 17 (14.2%). The difference was not statistically significant ( = 0.002, p = 0.964). Students from lower social class had lower proportion of psychosomatic disorder (10.6%) when compared to middle (17.2%) and upper (15.2%). The difference was equally not statistically significant ( = 1.759, p = 0.415). Male students had similar likelihood of psychosomatic disorder with females (OR 1.01, 95% CI 0.56−1.82). Those had belong to middle socio-economic class were about 1.2 times (AOR 1.15, 95% CI 0.54−2.45) and lower socio-economic class about 0.6 times (AOR 0.66, 95% CI 0.31−1.37) likely to have psychosomatic disorder than those from upper socio-economic class.ConclusionsPsychosomatic disorders constitute an emerging mental health problem among medical students in Nigerian Universities. This can pose a major mental health problem if neglected.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13033-016-0105-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…As participants in the current study were a specific non-health seeking sample, more diverse samples and including clinical samples would need to be used to establish the generalizability of the factor structure and reliability of the measure. However, as noted health anxiety is normally distributed in student groups generally (Marcus et al, 2008) and medical based students specifically (Azuri, Ackshota, & Vinker, 2010;Zhang et al, 2014). …”

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