Verdone Melinda, Murray Milena
University of Wisconsin Extended Campus, 5602 Research Park Blvd., Suite 300, Madison, WI 53719 USA.
Midwestern University College of Pharmacy, Downers Grove Campus, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Downers Grove, IL USA.
Med Sci Educ. 2021 Jan 20;31(2):519-525. doi: 10.1007/s40670-021-01207-z. eCollection 2021 Apr.
Transitioning to graduate-level professional school can trigger stressful feelings for many students. The purpose of this study was to determine the stress levels and unmet basic needs of first-year graduate healthcare students during their transition from undergraduate institutions to professional school.
The study was conducted at Midwestern University, a private, graduate-level, professional health sciences university located in the Midwest, during the 2018-2019 academic year. The survey was administered to all first-year students within the colleges of dentistry, medicine, optometry, and pharmacy. The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) was used to evaluate participants' stress levels and the Basic Need Satisfaction Inventory (BNSI) was used to evaluate unmet basic needs.
Of the 523 prospective participants, 404 survey responses were included (77.2% response rate). Female students showed higher perceived stress and lower basic need satisfaction. Perceived stress levels did not differ by professional program when taking into consideration the differences in gender distribution by program. A regression model indicated that gender and basic need satisfaction were the main predictors of perceived stress for healthcare professional students.
Higher basic need satisfaction was predictive of lower perceived stress in healthcare professional students. Perceived stress levels remain higher for female students compared to male students.
向研究生阶段的专业院校过渡可能会让许多学生产生压力情绪。本研究的目的是确定一年级研究生医护专业学生从本科院校过渡到专业院校期间的压力水平和未满足的基本需求。
该研究于2018 - 2019学年在位于中西部的一所私立研究生层次的专业健康科学大学——中西部大学进行。对牙科学院、医学院、验光学院和药学院的所有一年级学生进行了调查。使用感知压力量表（PSS - 10）评估参与者的压力水平，使用基本需求满意度量表（BNSI）评估未满足的基本需求。
在523名潜在参与者中，纳入了404份调查回复（回复率为77.2%）。女生表现出更高的感知压力和更低的基本需求满意度。在考虑各专业项目性别分布差异的情况下，不同专业项目的感知压力水平并无差异。一个回归模型表明，性别和基本需求满意度是医护专业学生感知压力的主要预测因素。
更高的基本需求满意度预示着医护专业学生较低的感知压力。与男生相比，女生的感知压力水平仍然更高。
