1Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, MLB Medical College, Jhansi
2Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Governmentt Medical College, Kannauj-UP
3Professor, Department of Physiology, KGMU, Lucknow, India
*Corresponding author: Dr. Pradeep Kumar Professor, Department of Physiology, KGMU Lucknow India; Email: pradeepkgmu@gmail.com
Online published on 11 February, 2016.
In developing countries like India the academic pressure makes as potential stressors for first year medical students and is initiated with thought of failure, aiming for good grade and uncertainty about own capabilities. The present study has been planned to examine the effect of problem solving counseling on anxiety, stress and empathy for students from medical college of Uttar Pradesh.
One hundred seventy eight undergraduate medical and non medical students were randomly selected for the study. The study subjects were fresh medical students and controls were age matched non medical students. The problem-solving counseling was given in study subjects; no counseling was intervened in the control group.
After counseling the HR, SBP and DBP significantly (P< 0.05) reduced in study subjects. No significant changes were observed in PR interval, QRS duration and QTc interval.
a substantial proportion of freshly entered medical students, in our medical college, are under the stress and anxiety. Strong actions should be taken to encourage medical students to seek help for psychosocial, academic and financial problems and to provide adequate facilities.
Stress, Medical Student, Problem Solving Counseling
