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Assessing Psychological Resilience and Distress Among Graduate Health Profession Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic
BACKGROUND: Resilience, a person’s ability to adapt to adverse events, is associated with positive outcomes, especially in the field of healthcare. Research into the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic may help to understand and combat the long-term mental health burden for trainees in health care. OBJ...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10291212/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37377629 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/27536130231185072 |
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author | Clark, Shane Loe, Emily Merlo, Lisa J. Estores, Irene M. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Resilience, a person’s ability to adapt to adverse events, is associated with positive outcomes, especially in the field of healthcare. Research into the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic may help to understand and combat the long-term mental health burden for trainees in health care. OBJECTIVE: This cross-sectional study aimed to assess the impact of the pandemic on health profession students’ educational experiences, determine the association between their self-reported resilience and psychological distress and assess group differences between students from different graduate health profession programs in an academic medical center. METHODS: Graduate health profession students completed a 44-question online survey and the 10-item Connor Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC-10) during the COVID-19 pandemic period between January-March 2021. We used descriptive statistics, independent samples t test, Related-samples Wilcoxon signed rank test, Pearson correlations test and Analysis of variance (ANOVA) to analyze the data. RESULTS: Majority of respondents reported that COVID-19 had a negative impact on their education and caused a reduction in educational opportunities (76.6% and 73% respectively). Majority also reported feeling burned out, lonely/isolated, or frustrated by COVID-19 restrictions (70.0%, 67.4%, and 61.8% respectively). Students reported increased use of both avoidant and adaptive coping strategies during the pandemic. Higher resilience scores were associated with higher self-reported stress, fewer burnout symptoms, and better overall well-being. CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected students in graduate health profession programs. Instructional quality, educational opportunities, institutional trust, peer socialization, and personal health and wellbeing were perceived to be negatively impacted. Students may require additional support and resources from their training programs to mitigate these concerns. Future studies should evaluate the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among pandemic-era graduate health profession students. |
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spelling | pubmed-102912122023-06-27 Assessing Psychological Resilience and Distress Among Graduate Health Profession Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic Clark, Shane Loe, Emily Merlo, Lisa J. Estores, Irene M. Glob Adv Integr Med Health Original Article BACKGROUND: Resilience, a person’s ability to adapt to adverse events, is associated with positive outcomes, especially in the field of healthcare. Research into the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic may help to understand and combat the long-term mental health burden for trainees in health care. OBJECTIVE: This cross-sectional study aimed to assess the impact of the pandemic on health profession students’ educational experiences, determine the association between their self-reported resilience and psychological distress and assess group differences between students from different graduate health profession programs in an academic medical center. METHODS: Graduate health profession students completed a 44-question online survey and the 10-item Connor Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC-10) during the COVID-19 pandemic period between January-March 2021. We used descriptive statistics, independent samples t test, Related-samples Wilcoxon signed rank test, Pearson correlations test and Analysis of variance (ANOVA) to analyze the data. RESULTS: Majority of respondents reported that COVID-19 had a negative impact on their education and caused a reduction in educational opportunities (76.6% and 73% respectively). Majority also reported feeling burned out, lonely/isolated, or frustrated by COVID-19 restrictions (70.0%, 67.4%, and 61.8% respectively). Students reported increased use of both avoidant and adaptive coping strategies during the pandemic. Higher resilience scores were associated with higher self-reported stress, fewer burnout symptoms, and better overall well-being. CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected students in graduate health profession programs. Instructional quality, educational opportunities, institutional trust, peer socialization, and personal health and wellbeing were perceived to be negatively impacted. Students may require additional support and resources from their training programs to mitigate these concerns. Future studies should evaluate the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among pandemic-era graduate health profession students. SAGE Publications 2023-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC10291212/ /pubmed/37377629 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/27536130231185072 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Article Clark, Shane Loe, Emily Merlo, Lisa J. Estores, Irene M. Assessing Psychological Resilience and Distress Among Graduate Health Profession Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | Assessing Psychological Resilience and Distress Among Graduate Health Profession Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | Assessing Psychological Resilience and Distress Among Graduate Health Profession Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | Assessing Psychological Resilience and Distress Among Graduate Health Profession Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessing Psychological Resilience and Distress Among Graduate Health Profession Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | Assessing Psychological Resilience and Distress Among Graduate Health Profession Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | assessing psychological resilience and distress among graduate health profession students during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10291212/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37377629 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/27536130231185072 |
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