Open AccessExam-Related Anxiety Levels among Iraqi Medical Students in Baghdad City
Author(s) -
Aisha Muthanna Shanshal,
Saad Abdulrahman Hussain,
Ahmed Mohamed Mahmood,
Fatima Abood Zukhair,
Ali Sabah Mahdi,
A Mahmood,
Nabaa Mustafa Hamed
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
al-rafidain journal of medical sciences.
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2789-3219
DOI - 10.54133/ajms.v2i.56
Subject(s) - worry , anxiety , pharmacy , medicine , family medicine , test anxiety , depression (economics) , test (biology) , clinical psychology , medical education , psychology , psychiatry , paleontology , biology , economics , macroeconomics
Background: Exam-related anxiety is a set of responses that include excessive worry, depression, nervousness, and irrelevant thinking from an individual's experience of assessment or testing and its outcome. Aim: This study was designed to evaluate exam-related anxiety among medical students in Baghdad City. Methods: This study utilized a cross-sectional survey design and was conducted by administering an online questionnaire to medical students (medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy). Results: A total of 530 students participated in the survey; 20.8% of them came from medical colleges, 41.7% from dentistry schools, and 37.5% from pharmacy schools. Around 27.1% of the respondents reported positive test-related anxiety. Conclusion: Exam-related anxiety is frequent among Iraqi medical students in Baghdad and highlights the need for education programs to reduce this anxiety.