Meo Sultan Ayoub, Abukhalaf Abdulelah Adnan, Alomar Ali Abdullah, Sattar Kamran, Klonoff David C
Sultan Ayoub Meo Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Abdulelah Adnan Abukhalaf Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Pak J Med Sci. 2020 May;36(COVID19-S4):S43-S48. doi: 10.12669/pjms.36.COVID19-S4.2809.
The novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic causes great public health and socioeconomic harms. Worldwide many countries implemented quarantine policies to minimize the spread of this highly contagious disease. The present study aim was to investigate the impact of quarantine on the medical students' mental wellbeing and learning behaviors.
In this descriptive study, we used a questionnaire with a Five-Point Likert Scale to collect the information. The questionnaire was distributed among 625 medical students through their emails with a response rate of 530 (84.8%), majority 294 (55.47%) being female. The survey questionnaire consisted of total 20 items; 12 items were related to psychological wellbeing and stress-allied queries and 08 items were about learning behaviors.
The findings encompass two important characteristics related to quarantine, psychological wellbeing, and learning behaviors. A combined cohort of 234 medical students, either female or male, (which was 44.1% of the total responders) showed a sense of being emotionally detached from family, friends and fellow students, 125/ 530 (23.5%) medical students felt disheartened. Both female and male medical students showed a marked decrease in their overall work performance. Moreover, 56.2% of the total students (61.5% of the females and 49.5% of the males) felt a decrease in the time they spent studying.
Both female and male medical students have identified that quarantine has caused them to feel emotionally detached from family, fellows, and friends and decrease their overall work performance and study period. The findings also show that one fourth of the medical students who participated in this study felt disheartened during the quarantine period. The long-term quarantine due to COVID-19 pandemics may causes further worsening in the psychological and learning behaviors of these medical students.
新型冠状病毒COVID-19大流行对公众健康和社会经济造成了巨大危害。全球许多国家实施了隔离政策，以尽量减少这种高传染性疾病的传播。本研究旨在调查隔离对医学生心理健康和学习行为的影响。
在这项描述性研究中，我们使用了一份具有五点李克特量表的问卷来收集信息。该问卷通过电子邮件分发给625名医学生，回复率为530份（84.8%），其中大多数为294名女性（55.47%）。调查问卷共有20个项目；12个项目与心理健康和压力相关问题有关，8个项目与学习行为有关。
研究结果包括与隔离、心理健康和学习行为相关的两个重要特征。共有234名医学生（占总受访者的44.1%）表示在情感上与家人、朋友和同学疏远，125/530名（23.5%）医学生感到沮丧。男女医学生的整体工作表现均显著下降。此外，56.2%的学生（61.5%的女生和49.5%的男生）感到学习时间减少。
男女医学生均认为隔离使他们在情感上与家人、同伴和朋友疏远，并降低了他们的整体工作表现和学习时间。研究结果还表明，参与本研究的四分之一医学生在隔离期间感到沮丧。由于COVID-19大流行导致的长期隔离可能会使这些医学生的心理和学习行为进一步恶化。
