Psychological well-being in medical undergraduates in a rural medical college in South India

Industrial Psychiatry Journal
P SreelathaSumalatha Ryali

Abstract

Medical colleges strive to create a learning environment best suitable for undergraduate medical education. In this process, measures taken can affect and influence the medical undergraduate psychological well-being. The demands of medical education lead to a psychological distress far beyond that experienced by the students of other specialties. The aim of this study is to study the levels of psychological well-being in medical under graduates. Using a cross-sectional design, 402 medical students were surveyed using the Ryffs's Psychological Well-being Scale. Low psychological well-being is evident in most of the medical undergraduates with the presence of stressors playing a significant role on psychological well-being with academic stress taking a major role. As depicted from the current study, academic stress plays a role in low psychological well-being of medical students.

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