ArticleSaudi medical journal2022
Emotional responses and coping strategies of medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Associations of nutritional awareness, body mass index, mental health, and fitness components among undergraduate university students.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Faith, Friends, and Humor: How Medical Students Cope with Academic Stress in a Private Medical University in Saudi Arabia.Advances in medical education and practice · 2024Article
- Trial by fire: The qualitative essence of interns' baptism into medical responsibility.Journal of education and health promotion · 2024Article
- Good adaptability of freshmen in medical universities under the Coronavirus 2019 pandemic: a questionnaire-based single center study in China.American journal of translational research · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo assess the emotional responses and coping strategies of medical students during the lockdown and social distancing measures implemented during the coronavirus disease -19 (COVID-19) pandemic.
methodsThis cross‑sectional study is based on data collected from undergraduate medical students at the College of Medicine, Alfaisal University Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during the fall semester of academic year 2020-2021. All the participants completed a self-administered online questionnaire consisting of 3 parts: demographic information, emotional response scale, and 14-item, adapted brief coping orientation to problems experienced inventory to determine the use of avoidant or approach coping strategies. Coping and emotional response scores were compared using t-test. Linear regression analysis was also performed.
resultsA total of 261 students from all years were included. Overall scores were higher for avoidant coping strategies. The use of avoidant coping strategies was significantly higher in females (
conclusionInterventions to train medical students in the use of more productive and effective coping strategies may reduce negative emotional responses linked to the present COVID-19 pandemic and in the future.
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