Stress and coping in a sample of medical students in Brazil
AUTOR(ES)
BASSOLS, ANA MARGARETH SIQUEIRA, CARNEIRO, BRUNA BRASIL, GUIMARÃES, GUILHERME CORREA, OKABAYASHI, LUCAS MESTRE SEIKI, CARVALHO, FELIPE GUTIERREZ, DA SILVA, ANAIS BACK, CORTES, GABRIELA NEUBARTH, ROHDE, LUIS AUGUSTO PAIM, EIZIRIK, CLAUDIO LAKS
FONTE
Arch. Clin. Psychiatry (São Paulo)
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2015-01
RESUMO
Background Medical training is a stressing situation, making medical students vulnerable to psychiatric disorders, such as depression and anxiety. Objective The study aimed to assess the prevalence of stress and coping in students of a public medical school in Brazil, comparing the groups from the first and sixth years of training. Methods Through a cross-sectional, observational study, a sample of 232 first and sixth-year regularly registered medical students has been evaluated. Students filled a socio-demographic questionnaire, the Lipp Inventory of Stress Symptoms (ISSL), and the Coping Strategies Inventory (CSI). Results From the total sample of 232 students, 110 were first-year students and 122 sixth-year students. Stress symptoms were significantly higher in first-year students (49.1%) than in the sixth-year group (33.6%; p = 0.018). Variables significantly associated with stress were: year of the training (1st year > 6th year), income (lower > higher income), satisfaction with the training (dissatisfied > satisfied) and the use of escape/avoidance copying strategy (positive association). Discussion Considering the higher stress symptoms among first-year medical students and the positive association of the escape/avoidance copying strategy with stress, strategies must be developed to enable students starting medical school to be better at coping with this stressful situations.
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