Psychosocial changes during the first year of medical school

Wolf, Thomas M.; Almen, T. Kristian von; Faucett, John M.; Randall, Howard M.; Franklin, Frank A.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2923.1991.tb00049.x

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“…The Hassles-R was used after extensive pilot testing (Wolf, Elston, & Kissling, 1989;Wolf et al, 1991). The Hassles-R has a high test -retest (month to month) repeatability.…”

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Depression, anxiety, and perceived hassles among entering medical students

Smith

Peterson

Degenhardt

et al. 2007

Psychology, Health & Medicine

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This study investigated depression and anxiety among students who were entering medical school prior to the onset of their medical curriculum. Entering students reported financial, day-to-day, academic, and time hassles as concerns. Interestingly, the population characteristics of gender, marital status, and ethnicity impacted the type of self-reported hassles indicated by the students. Measurements of depression and anxiety indicated that entering medical school students' emotional status resembles that of the general population. The results suggest that it is the rigors of the medical curriculum that may play an important role in the increased prevalence of depression and anxiety for students during their medical education. Further, students who are entering medical field already have concerns about medical school and are in the process of anticipating the necessary adjustment to the challenges ahead of them. Preventative programming efforts should begin early in medical education and address a wide variety of concerns from academic, to interpersonal relationships and financial worries.

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“…The Hassles-R was used after extensive pilot testing (Wolf, Elston, & Kissling, 1989;Wolf et al, 1991). The Hassles-R has a high test -retest (month to month) repeatability.…”

Section: Instrumentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Depression, anxiety, and perceived hassles among entering medical students

Smith

Peterson

Degenhardt

et al. 2007

Psychology, Health & Medicine

115

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“…Wolf et al (1991) reported that the SOS total and scale scores did not significantly change in a sample of medical students (n = 89) during their first year in medical school. They also reported that Hassles Scale measures were positively correlated with total SOS scores in this same sample of medical students.…”

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Work and nonwork stressors, negative affective states, and pain complaints among firefighters and paramedics

Beaton

Murphy

Pike

1996

Int J Stress Manage

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Prior research has suggested that occupational stressors may contribute to the etiology, progression, and chronicity of pain problems in workers. This study used anonymous survey methods to assess the prevalence and frequency of selfreported pain symptoms and their relationships to demographic variables, sources of occupational stressors, nonwork stressors attd affective distress in a large sample (N -~ 2000) of employed career public sector firefighters and paramedics. The findings were consistent with those of previous studies of high strain workers. More than 95% of the firefighter/paramedic sample reported at least one pain complaint (using a 1 week assessment time frame). A hierarchical multiple regression analysis entering demographic, occupational, and nonwork stressors, as 224Beaton, Murphy, and Pike INTRODUCTIONEvidence from a 1991 survey of American companies indicated that U.S. workers were plagued by job stress-related illnesses including muscle pain, headaches, and painful gastrointestinal disorders (NWNL, 1991). The results of two recent studies of blue-collar plant employees showed that psychological distress and job task dissatisfaction predicted future low back and other musculoskeletal pain problems (Leino & Magni, 1993; Bigos, Battie, Fisher, Fordyce, Hansson, Nachemson, & Spengler, 1990). However, there are apparently no published epidemiological data identifying the frequency or prevalence of pain complaints, nor their associations with job-related stressors and distress, in two closely aligned, high strain occupational groups: namely, professional firefighters and paramedics. Yet, if such data were available, preventive, and remedial stress management strategies could be designed and implemented.Mitchell and Bray (1990) considered muscle aches, headaches, and upset stomach to be common signs/symptoms of a cumulative emergency services stress reaction "... caused by a combination of a wide range of work and nonwork stressors" (p.52). Recent data supportive of the claims of Mitchell and Bray indicate that musculoskeletal sprains and strains account for nearly half of the line-of-duty injuries in firefighters and that on-the-job "back injury" alone accounts for nearly one-third of all premature disability retirements in firefighters (IAFF, 1992). Pain syndromes, even when they are not disabling, can adversely affect an individual's quality of life and social functioning (Kerns & Jacob, 1992). If pain impairs communication in firefighters and paramedics, the effects may be dire since team work and reliance upon one another are required in "time urgent" life and death situations.The theoretical framework adopted for this investigation was the multidimensional processional systems model developed by Hurrell (1987) and other researchers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The model consists of six major interrelated domains: job stressors, individual factors, nonwork factors, buffer factors, acute reaction, and illness as the outcome. The NIOSH model postulates...

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“…On s'intéresse moins aujourd'hui au pouvoir prédictif des variables cognitives sur les performances académiques et davantage à celui de la personnalité (Chamorro-Premuzic & Furnham, 2003a ;Wolf, von Almen, Faucett, & Randall, 1991). Parce que la personnalité est l'ensemble des dimensions stables des conduites d'un individu, on s'attend à ce qu'elle affecte ses performances.…”

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Psychosocial changes during the first year of medical school

Cited by 50 publications

References 30 publications

Depression, anxiety, and perceived hassles among entering medical students

Depression, anxiety, and perceived hassles among entering medical students

Work and nonwork stressors, negative affective states, and pain complaints among firefighters and paramedics

Rôle de certains facteurs psychosociaux dans la réussite universitaire d’étudiants de première année1

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