Meeting the challenges of medical student mental health and well‐being today

Choi, Augustine M.K.; Moon, Jennifer; Friedman, Richard A.

doi:10.1111/medu.14064

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“…49 Social support refers to psychological and material support or encouragement from family or friends while under stress. The support of social relations can affect the way that individuals understand their surroundings, play an essential role in formal and informal support networks, 50 and reflect the closeness and quality of a person’s relationship with society. This domestic scale was revised in 1999 based on the perceived social support scale that Zimet complied in 1987.…”

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Social Support Mediates the Relationship Between Coping Styles and the Mental Health of Medical Students

Dai¹,

Yi²,

Qian³

et al. 2023

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Purpose This study aimed to explore the impact that coping styles and social support have on the mental health of medical students by constructing a corresponding structural situation model that reveals the complex relationship between these three factors. In doing so, it seeks to help medication students better manage mental health problems. Patients and Methods The online study was conducted between March 6, 2021 and May 6, 2021. A total of 318 participants from multiple medical schools were involved. The general information questionnaire, simple coping style questionnaire (SCSQ), perceived social support scale (PSSS) and symptom checklist 90 (SCL-90) were used to collect relevant information from the subjects by snowball sampling. An independent t -test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient analysis, and intermediary effect analysis were all used to analyze the relevant data and construct the structural equation model. Results There was a significant difference in SCL-90 between medical students and national college students (1.78±0.70, P < 0.001), and the positive rate of mental health status was as high as 40.3%. Sleep quality, regular diet, and positive coping style were positively correlated with mental health (P < 0.01), while negative coping styles and total scores of coping style as well as family, friends, and other sources of social support and total scores of social support were negatively correlated with mental health problems (P < 0.01). Positive and negative coping styles have an impact on mental health through the mediating effect of between social support and coping styles, as well as in the direct pathway. Conclusion The mental health status of medical students was significantly poor. Medical schools should thus pay close attention to the mental health status of students and encourage them to develop healthy living habits, optimize coping styles, and establish stable sources of social support to improve their psychological wellbeing.

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Social Support Mediates the Relationship Between Coping Styles and the Mental Health of Medical Students

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Qian³

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“…This combination of family education and school education is more conducive to the continuous improvement and overall development of students' psychological quality. For this reason, we must attach great importance to online education [32]. On the one hand, it requires the self-purification of the Internet and strengthens the propaganda of Internet ethics and mental health education.…”

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Analysis of the Architecture of the Mental Health Education System for College Students Based on the Internet of Things and Privacy Security

Xiao

Xin-geng

2021

IEEE Access

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In recent years, the rapid development of computer and network technology has produced various positive and negative effects on the mental health of college students. This also brings challenges to mental health education in colleges. In order to strengthen the research on the mental health education model under the network environment, this paper proposes the architecture of the college student mental health education system based on the privacy and security of the Internet of Things. First of all, this article combines the 3DES-RC4 hybrid security encryption algorithm based on the Internet of Things. This article uses the C/S architecture, MQTT protocol and SIP protocol based on the Internet of Things structure to design and implement instant messaging IoT security for mental health education Architecture. The extreme learning machine method combined with the differential privacy method is used in this article. By adding noise to the query results and adding an appropriate amount of noise to the analysis results, the protection of private data can be achieved. Finally, the data set experiment proves that compared with the existing algorithms, the algorithm and model proposed in this paper can better balance the level of privacy protection and classification accuracy.

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“…For adolescents and college students, social support during times of COVID-19 was associated with fewer symptoms of depression and anxiety [31], and stress [32]. For medical students, social support is positively linked to mental wellbeing [33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. However, to the best of our knowledge, it is not yet known whether social support is associated with crisis-induced stress among medical students, especially in a crisis that strains social contacts through all kinds of social distancing measures.…”

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Medical students’ crisis-induced stress and the association with social support

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Background Medical schools are challenged to guard student wellbeing given the potential negative impact of the COVID-19 outbreak combined with an already high prevalence of mental distress. Although social support is generally associated with less crisis-induced stress, it is unknown whether this applies to medical students during the COVID-19 outbreak. Objectives The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on perceived stress of medical students was assessed by comparing their perceived stress levels during the outbreak to both their own baseline and the previous cohort’s pre-COVID-19 stress levels. Then, the association between social support and stress during the COVID-19 outbreak was assessed. Methods Dutch Year-1 medical students of cohort 2019 (n = 99) completed the 14-item Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-14) at two time points: baseline (pre-COVID-19) and final measurement (COVID-19). Social support—emotional-informational support and club membership—was assessed during the final measurement. PSS and social support scores were compared to similar measurements of cohort 2018 (n = 196). Students’ baseline stress levels, gender, and study performance were controlled for when comparing final stress levels. Results In cohort 2018 (pre-COVID-19), students’ perceived stress levels did not differ significantly between the baseline and final measurements. Additionally, baseline stress levels of the two cohorts (2018 and 2019) were not found to be significantly different. Cohort 2019’s final stress levels (COVID-19) were significantly higher compared to their baseline stress levels (paired t-test: t = 6.07, p < .001) and cohort 2018’s final stress levels (linear regression: B = 4.186, p < .001). Only during the COVID-19 outbreak higher social support levels—i.e., emotional-informational support (B = -0.75, p < .001) and club membership (B = -3.68, p < .01)—were associated with lower stress levels. Conclusions During the COVID-19 outbreak, medical students’ perceived stress levels were higher—especially for students with lower social support levels. Our results suggest that medical schools should optimize social support to minimize crisis-induced stress.

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Meeting the challenges of medical student mental health and well‐being today

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

Social Support Mediates the Relationship Between Coping Styles and the Mental Health of Medical Students

Social Support Mediates the Relationship Between Coping Styles and the Mental Health of Medical Students

Analysis of the Architecture of the Mental Health Education System for College Students Based on the Internet of Things and Privacy Security

Medical students’ crisis-induced stress and the association with social support

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