Prevalence of stress among medical students: A comparative study between public and private medical schools in Bangladesh
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| internalnotes | Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) (2003) Functions and structure of a medical school: standards for accreditation of medical education programs leading to the M.D. degree. http://www.lcme.org/publications/functions.pdf Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) (1998) Report I. Learning objectives for medical student education: guidelines for medical schools. Medical schools objectives project. https://webcampus.drexelmed.edu/professionalism/AAMCMedicalSchoolObjectivesProject.pdf Abdulghani HM, AlKanhal AA, Mahmoud ES, Ponnamperuma GG, Alfaris EA (2011) Stress and its effects on medical students: a cross-sectional study at a college of medicine in Saudi Arabia. J Health Popul Nutr 29(5):516. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3225114/pdf/jhpn0029-0516.pdf Abdulghani HM, Irshad M, Al Zunitan MA, Al Sulihem AA, Al Dehaim MA, Al Esefir WA et al (2014) Prevalence of stress in junior doctors during their internship training: a cross-sectional study of three Saudi medical colleges’ hospitals. Neuropsychiatrc Dis Treat 10:1879–1886. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4196886/pdf/ndt-10-1879.pdf AlFaris EA, Naeem N, Irfan F, Qureshi R, van der Vleuten C (2014) Student centered curricular elements are associated with a healthier educational environment and lower depressive symptoms in medical students. BMC Med Educ 14(1):192. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6920-14-192.pdf Dyrbye LM, Thomas MR, Shanafelt TD (2005) Medical student stress: causes, consequences, and proposed solutions. Mayo Clin Proc 80(12):1613–1622. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025619611610574 Vitaliano PP, Russo J, Carr JE, Heerwagen JH (1984) Medical school pressures and their relationship to anxiety. J Nerv Ment Dis 172(12):730–736. http://journals.lww.com/jonmd/1984/12000/Medical_School_Pressures_and_Their_Relationship_to.6.aspx Dahlin M, Joneborg N, Runeson B (2005) Stress and depression among students: a cross-sectional study. Med Educ 39(6):594–604. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2929.2005.02176.x/pdf Kumar GS, Jain A, Hedge S (2012) Prevalence of depression and its associated factors using Beck Depression Inventory among students of a medical college in Karnataka. Indian J Psychiatry 54(3):223–226. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3512357/ Mustafa MB, Nasir R, Yusooff F (2010) Parental support, personality, self-efficacy and depression among medical students. Proc Soc Behav Sci 7(C):419–424. http://ac.els-cdn.com/S1877042810020616/1-s2.0-S1877042810020616-main.pdf?_tid=fac5bf22-ba49-11e4-8ea5-00000aab0f26&acdnat=1424578943_752089fb5688b262467832fdf7a442cb Yusoff MSB, Yee LY, Wei LH, Siong TC, Meng LH, Bin LX et al (2011) A study on stress, stressors and coping strategies among Malaysian medical students. Int J Stud Res 1(2):45–50. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/50944546_A_study_on_stress_stressors_and_coping_strategies_among_Malaysian_medical_students Lim YM, Tam CL, Lee TH (2013) Perceived stress, coping strategy and general health: a study on accounting students in Malaysia. J Arts Sci Commer IV(1):88–95. http://www.researchersworld.com/vol4/vol4_issue1_1/Paper_10.pdf Moffat KJ, McConnachie A, Ross S, Morrison JM (2004) First year medical student stress and coping in a problem-based learning medical curriculum. Med Educ 38(5):482–491. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2929.2004.01814.x/pdf Helmers KF, Danoff D, Steinert Y, Leyton M, Young SN (1997) Stress and depressed mood in medical students, law students, and graduate students at McGill University. Acad Med 72(8):708–714. http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=1997&issue=08000&article=00018&type=abstract Guthrie E, Black D, Bagalkote H, Shaw C, Campbell M, Creed F (1998) Psychological stress and burnout in medical students: a 5-year prospective longitudinal study. J R Soc Med 91(5):237–243. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1296698/pdf/jrsocmed00025-0009.pdf Rosal MC, Ockene IS, Ockene JK, Barrett SV, Ma Y, Hebert JR (1997) A longitudinal study of students’ depression at one medical school. Acad Med 72(6):542–546. http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=1997&issue=06000&article=00022&type=abstract McCann CM, Beddoe E, McCormick K, Kedge PHS, Adamson C, Huggard J (2013) Resilient in health professions: a review of recent literature. Int J Wellbeing 3(1):60–81. http://www.internationaljournalofwellbeing.org/index.php/ijow/article/view/153/311 Behere SP, Yadav R, Behere PB (2011) A comparative study of stress among students of medicine, engineering, and nursing. Indian J Psychol Med 33(2):145–148. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3271488/ Jadoon NA, Yaqoob R, Raza A, Shehzad MA, Zeshan SC (2010) Anxiety and depression among medical students: a cross-sectional study. J Pak Med Assoc 60(8):699–702 Singh A, Lal A, Shekhar S (2010) Prevalence of depression among medical students of a private medical college in India. Online J Health Allied Sci 9(4):1–3. http://cogprints.org/7251/1/2010-4-8.pdf Elias H, Ping WS, Abdullah MC (2011) Stress and academic achievement among undergraduate students in Universiti Putra Malaysia. Proc Soc Behav Sci 29:646–655. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042811027492 Jain A, Bansal R (2012) Stress among medical and dental students: a global issue. IOSR J Dent Med Sci (JDMS) 1(5):5–7. http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jdms/papers/Vol1-issue5/B0150507.pdf Sultana N (2011) Stress and depression among undergraduate medical students of Bangladesh. Bangladesh J Med Educ 2(1):6–9. http://www.banglajol.info/index.php/BJME/article/view/18130/12666 Haque M, Yousuf R, Baker SA, Salam A (2013) Assessment in undergraduate medical education: Bangladesh perspectives. Bangladesh J Med Sci 12(4):357–363. http://www.banglajol.info/index.php/BJMS/article/download/16658/11721 Yusoff MSB, Rahim AFA, Yaacob MJ (2010) Prevalence and sources of stress among Universiti Sains Malaysia medical students. Malays J Med Sci 17(1):30–37. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3216143/pdf/mjms-17-1-030.pdf Goldberg D, Gater R, Sartorius N, Ustun TB, Piccinelli M, Gureje O et al (1997) The validity of two versions of the GHQ in the WHO study of mental illness in general health care. Psychol Med 27(1):191–197 Goldberg D (1978) Manual of the general health questionnaire. NFER Publishing Company, Windsor Hu Y, Brown SS, Twigg L, Weich S (2007) Can the 12-item general health questionnaire be used to measure positive mental health? Psychol Med 37(7):1005–1013 Fincham JE (2008) Response rates and responsiveness for surveys, standards, and the journal. Am J Pharm Educ 72(2):43 Nulty DD (2008) The adequacy of response rates to online and paper surveys: what can be done? Assess Eval High Educ 33(3):301–314. https://www.uaf.edu/files/uafgov/fsadmin-nulty5-19-10.pdf Saipanish R (2003) Stress among medical students in a Thai medical school. Med Teach 25(5):502–506. doi:10.1080/0142159031000136716 Yusoff MSB, Rahim AFA, Baba AA, Ismail SB, Pa MNM (2013) Prevalence and associated factors of stress, anxiety and depression among prospective medical students. Asian J Psychiatr 6(2):128–133. http://ac.els-cdn.com/S1876201812001864/1-s2.0-S1876201812001864-main.pdf?_tid=2dea2ae4-bb37-11e4-aaa1-00000aacb361&acdnat=1424680819_f22b86b1215f293ba6a9199868e6dd02 Wolf TM (1994) Stress, coping and health: enhancing well-being during medical school. Med Educ 28(1):8–17. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2923.1994.tb02679.x Barikani A (2008) Stress in medical students. J Med Educ 11(1&2):41–44. http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/jme/article/view/1028/1141 Rahman NIA, Ismail S, Ali RM, Alattraqchi AG, Dali WPEW, Umar BU et al (2015) Stress among first batch of MBBS students of Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia: when final professional examination is knocking the door. Int Med J 22(4):1–6 Rahman NIA, Ismail S, Seman TNABT, Rosli NFAB, Jusoh SABM, Dali WPEW et al (2013) Stress among preclinical medical students of Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin. J App Pharm Sci 3(11):076–081. http://japsonline.com/admin/php/uploads/1110_pdf.pdf Zaid ZA, Chan SC, Ho JJ (2007) Emotional disorders among medical students in Malaysian private medical school. Singapore Med J 48(10):895–899. http://smj.sma.org.sg/4810/4810a3.pdf Nur N, Cetinkaya S, Sabanciogullari V, Ozsahin SL, Kavakci O (2008) Emotional disorders among Turkish undergraduate medical students. Pak J Med Sci 24(6):792–797. http://pjms.com.pk/issues/octdec208/pdf/article04.pdf Al-Dubai SAR, Al-Naggar RA, Alshagga MA, Rampal KG (2011) Stress and coping strategies of students in a medical faculty in Malaysia. Malays J Med Sci 18(3):57–64. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3216229/pdf/mjms-18-3-057.pdf Al-Sowygh ZH (2013) Academic distress, perceived stress and coping strategies among dental students in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Dent J 25(3):97–105. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3809483/pdf/main.pdf Redhwan AAN, Sami AR, Karim A, Chan R, Zaleha M (2009) Stress and coping strategies among Management and Science University students: a qualitative study. Int Med J Malays 8(2):11–15. http://journals.iium.edu.my/imjm/index.php/eimj/article/download/105/103 Yusoff MSB (2010) Stress, stressors and coping strategies among secondary school students in a Malaysian government secondary school: Initial findings. ASEAN J Psychiatry 11(2):143–157. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.300.911&rep=rep1&type=pdf#page=15 Islam MZ, Rahman MF, Mossaddek ASM, Rozario RJ, Iftekhar AFMH, Akhter S et al (2014) Assessment of Bangladeshi interns’ knowledge of pharmacology and therapeutics for prescribing. J App Pharm Sci 4(4):43–051 Islam MZ, Salam A, Helali AM, Rahman Z, Dali WPEW, Ismail S et al (2014b) Comparative study of professionalism of future medical doctors between Malaysia and Bangladesh. J App Pharm Sci 4(4):066–071. http://www.japsonline.com/admin/php/uploads/1225_pdf.pdf Salam A, Haque M, Helali AM, Islam MZ, Mohsena M, Rahman Z et al (2013a) Comparative study on professionalism of forthcoming medical doctors between two private medical colleges in Savar, Bangladesh. Int J Pharm Pharm Sci 5(3):659–665. http://www.ijppsjournal.com/Vol5Suppl3/7441.pdf Salam A, Haque M, Islam MZ, Helali AM, Yousuf R, Yesmin F et al (2013b) Comparative study of professionalism of future medical professionals among three private medical colleges of Bangladesh. Asian J Pharm Clin Res 6(3):170–179. http://www.ajpcr.com/Vol6Issue3/157.pdf Salam A, Yousuf R, Islam MZ, Yesmin F, Helali AM, Alattraqchi AG et al (2013a) Professionalism of future medical professionals in Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia. Bangladesh J Pharmacol 8:124–130. http://www.banglajol.info/index.php/BJP/article/view/14158/10108 |
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Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on medical students from 2 public and 6 private medical-schools in Bangladesh. All medical schools have common curriculum formulated by the Government of Bangladesh. The study population was 1,363 medical students of Year-III and IV of academic session 2013/2014. Universal sampling technique was used. The period of study was February to June 2014. Data was collected using a validated instrument, compiled and analysed using SPSS version-20. Results: A total of 990 (73%) out 1,363 medical students participated in the study, of which 36% were male and 64% were female. The overall prevalence of stress of the study population was 54%. 53% of male and 55% of female were reported suffering from stress. 54% of Year-III students and 55% of Year-IV were noted suffering from stress. There was statistically significant (p = 0.005) differences in the level of stress between public (2.84 ± 0.59) and private (2.73 ± 0.57) medical schools student. Conclusions: More than half of Bangladeshi medical students are suffering from measureable academic stress. It would be pertinent if the relevant authorities could address the issue so as to provide a conducive medical learning environment. 8 1 1-7 Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) (2003) Functions and structure of a medical school: standards for accreditation of medical education programs leading to the M.D. degree. http://www.lcme.org/publications/functions.pdf Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) (1998) Report I. Learning objectives for medical student education: guidelines for medical schools. Medical schools objectives project. https://webcampus.drexelmed.edu/professionalism/AAMCMedicalSchoolObjectivesProject.pdf Abdulghani HM, AlKanhal AA, Mahmoud ES, Ponnamperuma GG, Alfaris EA (2011) Stress and its effects on medical students: a cross-sectional study at a college of medicine in Saudi Arabia. J Health Popul Nutr 29(5):516. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3225114/pdf/jhpn0029-0516.pdf Abdulghani HM, Irshad M, Al Zunitan MA, Al Sulihem AA, Al Dehaim MA, Al Esefir WA et al (2014) Prevalence of stress in junior doctors during their internship training: a cross-sectional study of three Saudi medical colleges’ hospitals. Neuropsychiatrc Dis Treat 10:1879–1886. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4196886/pdf/ndt-10-1879.pdf AlFaris EA, Naeem N, Irfan F, Qureshi R, van der Vleuten C (2014) Student centered curricular elements are associated with a healthier educational environment and lower depressive symptoms in medical students. BMC Med Educ 14(1):192. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6920-14-192.pdf Dyrbye LM, Thomas MR, Shanafelt TD (2005) Medical student stress: causes, consequences, and proposed solutions. Mayo Clin Proc 80(12):1613–1622. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025619611610574 Vitaliano PP, Russo J, Carr JE, Heerwagen JH (1984) Medical school pressures and their relationship to anxiety. J Nerv Ment Dis 172(12):730–736. http://journals.lww.com/jonmd/1984/12000/Medical_School_Pressures_and_Their_Relationship_to.6.aspx Dahlin M, Joneborg N, Runeson B (2005) Stress and depression among students: a cross-sectional study. Med Educ 39(6):594–604. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2929.2005.02176.x/pdf Kumar GS, Jain A, Hedge S (2012) Prevalence of depression and its associated factors using Beck Depression Inventory among students of a medical college in Karnataka. Indian J Psychiatry 54(3):223–226. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3512357/ Mustafa MB, Nasir R, Yusooff F (2010) Parental support, personality, self-efficacy and depression among medical students. Proc Soc Behav Sci 7(C):419–424. http://ac.els-cdn.com/S1877042810020616/1-s2.0-S1877042810020616-main.pdf?_tid=fac5bf22-ba49-11e4-8ea5-00000aab0f26&acdnat=1424578943_752089fb5688b262467832fdf7a442cb Yusoff MSB, Yee LY, Wei LH, Siong TC, Meng LH, Bin LX et al (2011) A study on stress, stressors and coping strategies among Malaysian medical students. Int J Stud Res 1(2):45–50. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/50944546_A_study_on_stress_stressors_and_coping_strategies_among_Malaysian_medical_students Lim YM, Tam CL, Lee TH (2013) Perceived stress, coping strategy and general health: a study on accounting students in Malaysia. J Arts Sci Commer IV(1):88–95. http://www.researchersworld.com/vol4/vol4_issue1_1/Paper_10.pdf Moffat KJ, McConnachie A, Ross S, Morrison JM (2004) First year medical student stress and coping in a problem-based learning medical curriculum. Med Educ 38(5):482–491. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2929.2004.01814.x/pdf Helmers KF, Danoff D, Steinert Y, Leyton M, Young SN (1997) Stress and depressed mood in medical students, law students, and graduate students at McGill University. Acad Med 72(8):708–714. http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=1997&issue=08000&article=00018&type=abstract Guthrie E, Black D, Bagalkote H, Shaw C, Campbell M, Creed F (1998) Psychological stress and burnout in medical students: a 5-year prospective longitudinal study. J R Soc Med 91(5):237–243. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1296698/pdf/jrsocmed00025-0009.pdf Rosal MC, Ockene IS, Ockene JK, Barrett SV, Ma Y, Hebert JR (1997) A longitudinal study of students’ depression at one medical school. Acad Med 72(6):542–546. http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=1997&issue=06000&article=00022&type=abstract McCann CM, Beddoe E, McCormick K, Kedge PHS, Adamson C, Huggard J (2013) Resilient in health professions: a review of recent literature. Int J Wellbeing 3(1):60–81. http://www.internationaljournalofwellbeing.org/index.php/ijow/article/view/153/311 Behere SP, Yadav R, Behere PB (2011) A comparative study of stress among students of medicine, engineering, and nursing. Indian J Psychol Med 33(2):145–148. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3271488/ Jadoon NA, Yaqoob R, Raza A, Shehzad MA, Zeshan SC (2010) Anxiety and depression among medical students: a cross-sectional study. J Pak Med Assoc 60(8):699–702 Singh A, Lal A, Shekhar S (2010) Prevalence of depression among medical students of a private medical college in India. Online J Health Allied Sci 9(4):1–3. http://cogprints.org/7251/1/2010-4-8.pdf Elias H, Ping WS, Abdullah MC (2011) Stress and academic achievement among undergraduate students in Universiti Putra Malaysia. Proc Soc Behav Sci 29:646–655. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042811027492 Jain A, Bansal R (2012) Stress among medical and dental students: a global issue. IOSR J Dent Med Sci (JDMS) 1(5):5–7. http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jdms/papers/Vol1-issue5/B0150507.pdf Sultana N (2011) Stress and depression among undergraduate medical students of Bangladesh. Bangladesh J Med Educ 2(1):6–9. http://www.banglajol.info/index.php/BJME/article/view/18130/12666 Haque M, Yousuf R, Baker SA, Salam A (2013) Assessment in undergraduate medical education: Bangladesh perspectives. Bangladesh J Med Sci 12(4):357–363. http://www.banglajol.info/index.php/BJMS/article/download/16658/11721 Yusoff MSB, Rahim AFA, Yaacob MJ (2010) Prevalence and sources of stress among Universiti Sains Malaysia medical students. Malays J Med Sci 17(1):30–37. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3216143/pdf/mjms-17-1-030.pdf Goldberg D, Gater R, Sartorius N, Ustun TB, Piccinelli M, Gureje O et al (1997) The validity of two versions of the GHQ in the WHO study of mental illness in general health care. Psychol Med 27(1):191–197 Goldberg D (1978) Manual of the general health questionnaire. NFER Publishing Company, Windsor Hu Y, Brown SS, Twigg L, Weich S (2007) Can the 12-item general health questionnaire be used to measure positive mental health? Psychol Med 37(7):1005–1013 Fincham JE (2008) Response rates and responsiveness for surveys, standards, and the journal. Am J Pharm Educ 72(2):43 Nulty DD (2008) The adequacy of response rates to online and paper surveys: what can be done? Assess Eval High Educ 33(3):301–314. https://www.uaf.edu/files/uafgov/fsadmin-nulty5-19-10.pdf Saipanish R (2003) Stress among medical students in a Thai medical school. Med Teach 25(5):502–506. doi:10.1080/0142159031000136716 Yusoff MSB, Rahim AFA, Baba AA, Ismail SB, Pa MNM (2013) Prevalence and associated factors of stress, anxiety and depression among prospective medical students. Asian J Psychiatr 6(2):128–133. http://ac.els-cdn.com/S1876201812001864/1-s2.0-S1876201812001864-main.pdf?_tid=2dea2ae4-bb37-11e4-aaa1-00000aacb361&acdnat=1424680819_f22b86b1215f293ba6a9199868e6dd02 Wolf TM (1994) Stress, coping and health: enhancing well-being during medical school. Med Educ 28(1):8–17. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2923.1994.tb02679.x Barikani A (2008) Stress in medical students. J Med Educ 11(1&2):41–44. http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/jme/article/view/1028/1141 Rahman NIA, Ismail S, Ali RM, Alattraqchi AG, Dali WPEW, Umar BU et al (2015) Stress among first batch of MBBS students of Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia: when final professional examination is knocking the door. Int Med J 22(4):1–6 Rahman NIA, Ismail S, Seman TNABT, Rosli NFAB, Jusoh SABM, Dali WPEW et al (2013) Stress among preclinical medical students of Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin. J App Pharm Sci 3(11):076–081. http://japsonline.com/admin/php/uploads/1110_pdf.pdf Zaid ZA, Chan SC, Ho JJ (2007) Emotional disorders among medical students in Malaysian private medical school. Singapore Med J 48(10):895–899. http://smj.sma.org.sg/4810/4810a3.pdf Nur N, Cetinkaya S, Sabanciogullari V, Ozsahin SL, Kavakci O (2008) Emotional disorders among Turkish undergraduate medical students. Pak J Med Sci 24(6):792–797. http://pjms.com.pk/issues/octdec208/pdf/article04.pdf Al-Dubai SAR, Al-Naggar RA, Alshagga MA, Rampal KG (2011) Stress and coping strategies of students in a medical faculty in Malaysia. Malays J Med Sci 18(3):57–64. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3216229/pdf/mjms-18-3-057.pdf Al-Sowygh ZH (2013) Academic distress, perceived stress and coping strategies among dental students in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Dent J 25(3):97–105. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3809483/pdf/main.pdf Redhwan AAN, Sami AR, Karim A, Chan R, Zaleha M (2009) Stress and coping strategies among Management and Science University students: a qualitative study. Int Med J Malays 8(2):11–15. http://journals.iium.edu.my/imjm/index.php/eimj/article/download/105/103 Yusoff MSB (2010) Stress, stressors and coping strategies among secondary school students in a Malaysian government secondary school: Initial findings. ASEAN J Psychiatry 11(2):143–157. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.300.911&rep=rep1&type=pdf#page=15 Islam MZ, Rahman MF, Mossaddek ASM, Rozario RJ, Iftekhar AFMH, Akhter S et al (2014) Assessment of Bangladeshi interns’ knowledge of pharmacology and therapeutics for prescribing. J App Pharm Sci 4(4):43–051 Islam MZ, Salam A, Helali AM, Rahman Z, Dali WPEW, Ismail S et al (2014b) Comparative study of professionalism of future medical doctors between Malaysia and Bangladesh. J App Pharm Sci 4(4):066–071. http://www.japsonline.com/admin/php/uploads/1225_pdf.pdf Salam A, Haque M, Helali AM, Islam MZ, Mohsena M, Rahman Z et al (2013a) Comparative study on professionalism of forthcoming medical doctors between two private medical colleges in Savar, Bangladesh. Int J Pharm Pharm Sci 5(3):659–665. http://www.ijppsjournal.com/Vol5Suppl3/7441.pdf Salam A, Haque M, Islam MZ, Helali AM, Yousuf R, Yesmin F et al (2013b) Comparative study of professionalism of future medical professionals among three private medical colleges of Bangladesh. Asian J Pharm Clin Res 6(3):170–179. http://www.ajpcr.com/Vol6Issue3/157.pdf Salam A, Yousuf R, Islam MZ, Yesmin F, Helali AM, Alattraqchi AG et al (2013a) Professionalism of future medical professionals in Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia. Bangladesh J Pharmacol 8:124–130. http://www.banglajol.info/index.php/BJP/article/view/14158/10108 |
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| summary | Background: Throughout the world all health professionals face stress because of time-pressures, workload, multiple roles and emotional issues. Stress does not only exist among the health professionals but also in medical students. Bangladesh has currently 77 medical colleges 54 of which are private. This study was designed to collect baseline data of stress-level among Bangladeshi students, which we believe will form the basis for further in depth studies. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on medical students from 2 public and 6 private medical-schools in Bangladesh. All medical schools have common curriculum formulated by the Government of Bangladesh. The study population was 1,363 medical students of Year-III and IV of academic session 2013/2014. Universal sampling technique was used. The period of study was February to June 2014. Data was collected using a validated instrument, compiled and analysed using SPSS version-20. Results: A total of 990 (73%) out 1,363 medical students participated in the study, of which 36% were male and 64% were female. The overall prevalence of stress of the study population was 54%. 53% of male and 55% of female were reported suffering from stress. 54% of Year-III students and 55% of Year-IV were noted suffering from stress. There was statistically significant (p = 0.005) differences in the level of stress between public (2.84 ± 0.59) and private (2.73 ± 0.57) medical schools student. Conclusions: More than half of Bangladeshi medical students are suffering from measureable academic stress. It would be pertinent if the relevant authorities could address the issue so as to provide a conducive medical learning environment. |
| title | Prevalence of stress among medical students: A comparative study between public and private medical schools in Bangladesh |
| title_full | Prevalence of stress among medical students: A comparative study between public and private medical schools in Bangladesh |
| title_fullStr | Prevalence of stress among medical students: A comparative study between public and private medical schools in Bangladesh |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence of stress among medical students: A comparative study between public and private medical schools in Bangladesh |
| title_short | Prevalence of stress among medical students: A comparative study between public and private medical schools in Bangladesh |
| title_sort | prevalence of stress among medical students: a comparative study between public and private medical schools in bangladesh |