Future Anxiety, Depression and Stress Among Medical Students
Abstract
The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between future anxiety(FA), depression and stress among the students of Eskisehir Osmangazi University Faculty of Medicine(ESOGUTF). This cross - sectional study conducted in ESOGUTF students. In 2018-2019 academic year, the total number of students was 1519 and 732(48.2%) of them were reached. The questionnaire was completed by the students under the observation of the researchers. FA individuals feel anxious about a possible danger in the future; vocational dimention of FA was defined as feeling anxious about a future danger on a subject related to the profession. FA were asked in a 5-point Likert type that ranged between “never” and “always”; those who answered these questions “quite often “and “always” were considered anxious. The data were evaluated with SPSS (version 15.0) Statistical Package Program on computer. Chi-square, Student's t and Mann Whitney U tests were used for analysis. Statistical significance was accepted as p≤0.05. Among the study group 395(54.0%) of them were males. The ages of the students varied between 18-40; The mean age was 21.1 ± 2.2 years. 28 (3.8%) of the students reported that they always felt FA, and 136 (18.6%) reported that they often felt FA. It was seen that all subdimentional scores of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress -21 scale were found higher in students with FA. Future anxiety was found very common among medical students. After identifying the causes of FA, taking proper measures should be prioritized.
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Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
Health Care Administration
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Gökçe Dağtekin
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Türkiye
Mustafa Dalkılıç
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Türkiye
Furkan Çakıcı
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Türkiye
Aybike Çakır
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Türkiye
Ahmet Eren Ekin
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Türkiye
Davut Öztünç
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Türkiye
Burhanettin Işıklı
Türkiye
Publication Date
December 23, 2020
Submission Date
June 27, 2020
Acceptance Date
December 22, 2020
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Year 1970 Volume: 2 Number: 3