The effectiveness of medical student wellbeing workshop for stress management of medical students, school of medical sciences, USM

Yusoff, Muhamad Saiful Bahri (2015) The effectiveness of medical student wellbeing workshop for stress management of medical students, school of medical sciences, USM. Project Report. Pusat Pengajian Kesihatan. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Many researchers have emphasized the importance of teaching stress management and self-care skills to medical students as they are vulnerable to develop health problems related to physical, mental and behavior. A 4-hour medical student wellbeing intervention was designed based on the DEAL model to address these problems. A randomized controlled trial study was conducted on 171 medical students. They were randomly allocated into intervention and control groups. Their stress, anxiety, depression, coping strategies and perceived academic stress were measured by validated tools at five different intervals; at 2 weeks before the intervention, and at 1 week, 8 weeks, 16 weeks and 32 weeks after the intervention. The repeated measure ANCOVA was applied to determine the effect of intervention across the five intervals. A total of 153 medical students (intervention = 73 and control = 80) completed this study. Between group analysis showed that the intervention group significantly experienced lower stress (p = 0.009) and depression (p = 0.013) symptoms, less frequent of denial (p = 0.002), less frequent of self-blame (p = 0.002) and lower perceived academic stress (p = 0.009) than the control group. The results support the positive impacts of the DEALbased intervention on the medical students’ wellbeing. It is a promising intervention to be adopted by higher education as it consumes minimal amount of time, money, training and man power as well as simple to be implemented.

Item Type: Monograph (Project Report)
Uncontrolled Keywords: stress management
Subjects: R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA440-440.87 Study and teaching. Research
R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC554-569.5 Personality disorders. Behavior problems Including sexual problems, drug abuse,suicide, child abuse
Divisions: Kampus Kesihatan (Health Campus) > Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan (School of Health Sciences) > Monograph
Depositing User: Mr Husnan Budin
Date Deposited: 31 Mar 2024 07:31
Last Modified: 31 Mar 2024 07:31
URI: http://eprints.usm.my/id/eprint/59964

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