Cargando…
An Online Survey on the Relationship Between Positive Coping and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms (PTSS) of Medical Students in China During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Role of Social Support
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused varying degrees of psychological stress among medical students. This research explored the post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) of medical students in China and their relationship with positive coping and social support. MATERIAL/METHODS: In the form of...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
International Scientific Literature, Inc.
2023
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10240963/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37259486 http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/MSM.939485 |
_version_ | 1785053883336228864 |
---|---|
author | Song, Hong-tao Xia, Ling-ling Ma, Yan Jiao, Dongliang Chen, Sihan Wang, Lijing Wang, Wenjuan Song, Peipei Mu, Linlin Li, Li Pan, Mengdie Zhang, Lei Zhao, Jing Li, Jun-da |
author_facet | Song, Hong-tao Xia, Ling-ling Ma, Yan Jiao, Dongliang Chen, Sihan Wang, Lijing Wang, Wenjuan Song, Peipei Mu, Linlin Li, Li Pan, Mengdie Zhang, Lei Zhao, Jing Li, Jun-da |
author_sort | Song, Hong-tao |
collection | PubMed |
description | BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused varying degrees of psychological stress among medical students. This research explored the post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) of medical students in China and their relationship with positive coping and social support. MATERIAL/METHODS: In the form of cross-sectional online survey, 2280 medical students locked down at home were selected by random cluster method to investigate social support, coping style, and PTSS using the Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS), Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire (SCSQ), and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C), respectively. RESULTS: This research found that the PTSS detection rate in medical students was 10.42% during the COVID-19 pandemic. The PTSS scores of females were significantly higher than that of the males. However, the PTSS detection rate in females (9.71%) was not significantly different from that in males (11.24%). Compared with those of the non-PTSS group, the total score and its all-factor score of social support, the total score of coping style and the positive coping score of the PTSS group were much lower, while the negative coping score of the PTSS group was much higher (P<0.01). Positive coping was positively correlated with social support, while positive coping and social support were negatively correlated with PTSS. The total effect of positive coping on PTSS was −0.310 (P<0.001), the direct effect was −0.128 (P<0.01), and the indirect effect was −0.182 (P<0.001). Social support played a mediating role between positive coping and PTSS, with the mediating effect accounting for 58.81% of the total effect. CONCLUSIONS: Social support plays a mediating role between positive coping and post-traumatic stress symptoms. Objective support and positive coping are the 2 main protective factors of PTSS. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-10240963 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2023 |
publisher | International Scientific Literature, Inc. |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-102409632023-06-06 An Online Survey on the Relationship Between Positive Coping and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms (PTSS) of Medical Students in China During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Role of Social Support Song, Hong-tao Xia, Ling-ling Ma, Yan Jiao, Dongliang Chen, Sihan Wang, Lijing Wang, Wenjuan Song, Peipei Mu, Linlin Li, Li Pan, Mengdie Zhang, Lei Zhao, Jing Li, Jun-da Med Sci Monit Clinical Research BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused varying degrees of psychological stress among medical students. This research explored the post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) of medical students in China and their relationship with positive coping and social support. MATERIAL/METHODS: In the form of cross-sectional online survey, 2280 medical students locked down at home were selected by random cluster method to investigate social support, coping style, and PTSS using the Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS), Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire (SCSQ), and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C), respectively. RESULTS: This research found that the PTSS detection rate in medical students was 10.42% during the COVID-19 pandemic. The PTSS scores of females were significantly higher than that of the males. However, the PTSS detection rate in females (9.71%) was not significantly different from that in males (11.24%). Compared with those of the non-PTSS group, the total score and its all-factor score of social support, the total score of coping style and the positive coping score of the PTSS group were much lower, while the negative coping score of the PTSS group was much higher (P<0.01). Positive coping was positively correlated with social support, while positive coping and social support were negatively correlated with PTSS. The total effect of positive coping on PTSS was −0.310 (P<0.001), the direct effect was −0.128 (P<0.01), and the indirect effect was −0.182 (P<0.001). Social support played a mediating role between positive coping and PTSS, with the mediating effect accounting for 58.81% of the total effect. CONCLUSIONS: Social support plays a mediating role between positive coping and post-traumatic stress symptoms. Objective support and positive coping are the 2 main protective factors of PTSS. International Scientific Literature, Inc. 2023-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10240963/ /pubmed/37259486 http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/MSM.939485 Text en © Med Sci Monit, 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This work is licensed under Creative Common Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) ) |
spellingShingle | Clinical Research Song, Hong-tao Xia, Ling-ling Ma, Yan Jiao, Dongliang Chen, Sihan Wang, Lijing Wang, Wenjuan Song, Peipei Mu, Linlin Li, Li Pan, Mengdie Zhang, Lei Zhao, Jing Li, Jun-da An Online Survey on the Relationship Between Positive Coping and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms (PTSS) of Medical Students in China During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Role of Social Support |
title | An Online Survey on the Relationship Between Positive Coping and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms (PTSS) of Medical Students in China During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Role of Social Support |
title_full | An Online Survey on the Relationship Between Positive Coping and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms (PTSS) of Medical Students in China During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Role of Social Support |
title_fullStr | An Online Survey on the Relationship Between Positive Coping and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms (PTSS) of Medical Students in China During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Role of Social Support |
title_full_unstemmed | An Online Survey on the Relationship Between Positive Coping and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms (PTSS) of Medical Students in China During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Role of Social Support |
title_short | An Online Survey on the Relationship Between Positive Coping and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms (PTSS) of Medical Students in China During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Role of Social Support |
title_sort | online survey on the relationship between positive coping and post-traumatic stress symptoms (ptss) of medical students in china during the covid-19 pandemic: the mediating role of social support |
topic | Clinical Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10240963/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37259486 http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/MSM.939485 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT songhongtao anonlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT xialingling anonlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT mayan anonlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT jiaodongliang anonlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT chensihan anonlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT wanglijing anonlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT wangwenjuan anonlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT songpeipei anonlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT mulinlin anonlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT lili anonlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT panmengdie anonlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT zhanglei anonlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT zhaojing anonlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT lijunda anonlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT songhongtao onlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT xialingling onlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT mayan onlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT jiaodongliang onlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT chensihan onlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT wanglijing onlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT wangwenjuan onlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT songpeipei onlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT mulinlin onlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT lili onlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT panmengdie onlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT zhanglei onlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT zhaojing onlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport AT lijunda onlinesurveyontherelationshipbetweenpositivecopingandposttraumaticstresssymptomsptssofmedicalstudentsinchinaduringthecovid19pandemicthemediatingroleofsocialsupport |