Objective: Medical school is considered as one of the most stressful period during the physician’s career. The purpose of this study is to explore the well-being among medical students in Oman Medical College in their clinical years and to detect any possible association between the level of stress and (a) gender, (b) marital status, (c) residency during the studying period, (d) academic year and (e) academic grade. Design: Cross-sectional study. Methods: All registered students in the clinical years (6th and 7th year) in Oman medical college who attended the academic year 2016-2017 were enrolled in this study. Data was collected by using medical Student Well- Being Index (MSWBI), which is a self-reported questionnaire. Results: A total of 189 participants were enrolled in the study in which 104 in 6th year and 85 participants in 7th year. The response rate was 91%. The mean age of the participants is 23.91. Among those; 90.5% are female and 9.5% are male. 89.9% of the participants are single. Only 12.1% living with family during studying period. Medical students were asked multiple questions to evaluate distress in multiple domains which are burnout, depression, fatigue stress, mental and physical quality of life. All distress domains, except fatigue domain have scored very high. The highest score was in mental quality of life domains.79.9% of the participants have felt depressed or anxious in the past month. Participants also score high (71.3%) in the burnout and depression domains, while only scoring 29.5 % in fatigue domain. Among all distress domains in both years, there is only significant difference in the physical health domain (p = 0.020). Conclusion: High level of physical a
Objective: Medical school is considered as one of the most stressful period during the physician’s career. The purpose of this study is to explore the well-being among medical students in Oman Medical College in their clinical years and to detect any possible association between the level of stress...
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