Open AccessPrevalence of anxiety and depression in medical students of a public sector medical college in Islamabad and coping mechanisms adopted
Author(s) -
Rizwan Zafar,
Muhammad Raheel,
Muhammad Ahmed Mujtaba,
Rabia Mahmood,
Muhammad Umair Nawaz,
Bhavesh Kumar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of the pakistan medical association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0030-9982
DOI - 10.47391/jpma.2107
Subject(s) - anxiety , medicine , coping (psychology) , clinical psychology , cross sectional study , population , dass , sample size determination , psychiatry , environmental health , statistics , mathematics , pathology
The objectives of this study were to find out the frequency of anxiety and depression in medical students and various coping mechanisms adopted by them to identify the coping trends and to stress the need of equipping these students with positive coping tools to deal with anxiety and depression. A cross-sectional, questionnaire-based observational study was conducted on a population of 500 medical students of Federal Medical and Dental College, Islamabad. The duration of the study was three months. By using the WHO sample size calculator, taking the confidence level 95%, anticipated population proportion 70% and absolute precision required 7%, the sample size was calculated at 165. The samples were collected by non-probability consecutive sampling via a questionnaire. In the study, two instruments were used: 1) Aga Khan University Anxiety and Depression Scale (AKUADS), and 2) Brief Cope Inventory.---Continue