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Wellbeing and mental health amongst medical students in Canada

RESEARCH: There is abundant data revealing that there is significant rate of rates of Psychiatric morbidity, psychological stress, and burnout in the medical student population. A core study group in the UK collaborated with 12 countries around the world to review medical student wellness. In this c...

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Autores principales: Wilkes, Thomas Christopher, Lewis, Thomas, Paget, Mike, Holm, Johanna, Brager, Nancy, Bulloch, Andy, Macmaster, Frank, Molodynski, Andrew, Bhugra, Dinesh
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9465500/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34791951
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00207640211057724
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author Wilkes, Thomas Christopher
Lewis, Thomas
Paget, Mike
Holm, Johanna
Brager, Nancy
Bulloch, Andy
Macmaster, Frank
Molodynski, Andrew
Bhugra, Dinesh
author_facet Wilkes, Thomas Christopher
Lewis, Thomas
Paget, Mike
Holm, Johanna
Brager, Nancy
Bulloch, Andy
Macmaster, Frank
Molodynski, Andrew
Bhugra, Dinesh
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description RESEARCH: There is abundant data revealing that there is significant rate of rates of Psychiatric morbidity, psychological stress, and burnout in the medical student population. A core study group in the UK collaborated with 12 countries around the world to review medical student wellness. In this context we surveyed 101 medical students at the Cummings medical school, Calgary, Canada during the height of the COVID pandemic regarding their wellbeing and mental health. RESULTS/MAIN FINDINGS: Prior to medical school 27% reported a diagnosis with a mental disorder. Whilst at medical school 21% reported a mental health condition, most commonly an anxiety disorder and or depressive disorder. The most commonly reported source of stress was study at 81%, the second being relationships at 62%, money stress was a significant source of stress for 35%, and finally 10% reported accommodation or housing as stressful. Interestingly only 14% tested CAGE positive but 20% of students reported having taken a non-prescription substance to feel better or regulate their mood. Seventy-five percent of medical students met specific case criteria for exhaustion on the Oldenburg Burnout inventory 74% met criteria for the GHQ questionnaire. CONCLUSIONS: These findings confirm that medical students are facing significant stressors during their training. These stressors include, in order of frequency, study, relational, financial, and accommodation issues. Nonprescription Substance use was a common finding as well as exhaustion and psychiatric morbidity. Future interventions pursued will have to address cultural issues as well as the organizational and individual determinates of stress.
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spelling pubmed-94655002022-09-13 Wellbeing and mental health amongst medical students in Canada Wilkes, Thomas Christopher Lewis, Thomas Paget, Mike Holm, Johanna Brager, Nancy Bulloch, Andy Macmaster, Frank Molodynski, Andrew Bhugra, Dinesh Int J Soc Psychiatry Original Articles RESEARCH: There is abundant data revealing that there is significant rate of rates of Psychiatric morbidity, psychological stress, and burnout in the medical student population. A core study group in the UK collaborated with 12 countries around the world to review medical student wellness. In this context we surveyed 101 medical students at the Cummings medical school, Calgary, Canada during the height of the COVID pandemic regarding their wellbeing and mental health. RESULTS/MAIN FINDINGS: Prior to medical school 27% reported a diagnosis with a mental disorder. Whilst at medical school 21% reported a mental health condition, most commonly an anxiety disorder and or depressive disorder. The most commonly reported source of stress was study at 81%, the second being relationships at 62%, money stress was a significant source of stress for 35%, and finally 10% reported accommodation or housing as stressful. Interestingly only 14% tested CAGE positive but 20% of students reported having taken a non-prescription substance to feel better or regulate their mood. Seventy-five percent of medical students met specific case criteria for exhaustion on the Oldenburg Burnout inventory 74% met criteria for the GHQ questionnaire. CONCLUSIONS: These findings confirm that medical students are facing significant stressors during their training. These stressors include, in order of frequency, study, relational, financial, and accommodation issues. Nonprescription Substance use was a common finding as well as exhaustion and psychiatric morbidity. Future interventions pursued will have to address cultural issues as well as the organizational and individual determinates of stress. SAGE Publications 2021-11-18 2022-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9465500/ /pubmed/34791951 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00207640211057724 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any 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).
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