I want to measure the stress in medical students? is it influencing their academics? Stress can bring about positive and negative influence. What are the criteria to mention it as positive or negative ?
How long this influence will last ?will the intensity of stress has any role ?
I am sending a study some colleagues and I did on stress in medical students 20 years ago. At that time there were many studies suggesting that medical students were very stressed, but none had used a scale for which population norms had been determined. We used the Derogatis Stress Profile and found that medical students were not significantly more stressed than the general population, and were less stressed than law students. The medical students did become more stressed during the transition from basic science part of the curriculum to clinical training. I have not followed the literature closely on this topic since then, but have seen more recent studies stating that medical students are highly stressed, without any comparison with other groups. So I would recommend using the Derogatis Stress Profile and looking at different years during medical training.
I do not see any way to determine what aspects of stress during medical training might be positive or negative, especially as the positive aspects of stress during training might not be apparent until after the end of medical school.
I hope this is helpful,
Simon Young
Thank you very much for your response detailing the requirement clearly.
Hello Saileela,
This is a question that has been examined a lot in research, I am attaching a few relevant papers that will give you some examples and ideas for looking up other studies to see which measures they used. Hope this helps, good luck, Rachel.
Thank you Rachel Bechner Melman for responding and giving resources.
good learning experience.
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