A Study of Perceived Stress & Coping in Interns in a Tertiary Care Hospital in a North Eastern State of India

BACKGROUND Internship is a year of tremendous change both personally & professionally. The stress of internship stems from academic pressure, perfectionist standard and demanding nature of medical practice which requires involvement with most personal or emotionally draining aspects of life (hum...

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Published inJournal of evolution of medical and dental sciences Vol. 9; no. 52; pp. 3950 - 3955
Main Authors Nagdive, Amit, R.U., Zaman, Mansharamani, Himanshu Deepak, Behere, Prakash B., Fernandes, Rouchelle
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Akshantala Enterprises Private Limited 28.12.2020
Subjects
Analysis
Internship programs
Medicine
Practice
Sex (Psychology)
Stress (Psychology)
Stress management
India
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Summary:BACKGROUND Internship is a year of tremendous change both personally & professionally. The stress of internship stems from academic pressure, perfectionist standard and demanding nature of medical practice which requires involvement with most personal or emotionally draining aspects of life (human suffering, death, sexuality and fear). We wanted to study the stressful life events in the intern population, coping strategies adopted by the study group, co-relation between perceived stressful life event and coping in study group, and the socio-demographic variables and its co-relation with perceived stress and coping in study group. METHODS The study was carried out in the Department of Psychiatry of a Tertiary Health Care Centre in a North Eastern State of India for a period of one year. 100 interns were included in the study. General Health Questionnaire-30, The Perceived Stress Scale, Presumptive Stressful Life Event Scale, Ways Of Coping Questionnaire (WOCQ) were used to assess stress and coping in in the subjects. Statistical Analysis was done using SPSS version 16, Spearman's Rank correlation test and Man Whitney U test. RESULTS Within the study group, females have more perceived stress, as compared to males. Urban population has more stressful life events & perceived stress as compared to rural & semi-urban. Positive reappraisal is most common coping mechanism used by study group followed by self-controlling & escape avoidance. Stressful life events have better co-relation to coping styles as compared to perceived stress. CONCLUSIONS Interns experience significant stress which has considerable impact on coping mechanisms. KEY WORDS Stress, Interns, Coping, Tertiary Care
ISSN:2278-4748
2278-4802
DOI:10.14260/jemds/2020/864