PhD Community Medicine, Lecturer, Clinical Nursing Sciences Department, Nursing College, Mosul University, Iraq
Medical education and profession are among the most challenging and most worrying ones. Anxiety represents an escalating public health problem among medical students. The objective of this study was to verify the prevalence & predictors of anxiety disorder among medical students in Mosul University/Mosul/Iraq.
So a cross-sectional study was carried out during December 2017. A random sample method was used to select 225 medical students. A confidential & self administered questionnaire included Standardized Taylor scale of honest anxiety was used.
Among 200 respondent students, 129 (64.5%) were female and 71(35.5%) were male. (37%) of participants aged 18 & 19. Among these participants 7 (3.5%) were smoker, 4 (2%) of them are smoke hookah. Among the participants 63 (31.5%) had no anxiety while 37 (18.5%) had panic state. 109 (54.5%) see dreams cannot told anyone, and 151 (75.5%) are want to be glad like others.
Medical students in Mosul university had high prevalence of anxiety in comparison with others. educational problems and major life events were the main predictors.
Anxiety in medical student, stress in medical student
