Academic stress and suicidal ideation among medical and non-medical students of Abbottabad, KPK, Pakistan A cross sectional study

The present study has investigated the level of academic stress and suicidal ideation among medical and non-medical students of different colleges of Abbottabad city. It was hypothesized that medical students will have high level of academic stress and suicidal ideation as compare to non-medical students. It was further hypothesized that female medical students as compare to male medical students and female non-medical students as compare to male no-medical students will have high level of academic stress and suicidal ideation. The sample was comprised of total 160 students, 80 medical (40 male medical students and 40 female medical students) and 80 non-medical (40 male non-medical students and 40 female non-medical students) students. The entire sample was selected using convenience sampling technique.Academic Stress Scale and Beck Scale for Suicidal Ideation ware used to assess the level of academic stress and suicidal ideation among the students. After gathering the data, the results were drawn by using SPSS version 20. The results of the study confirmed our hypothesis. Suggestions and limitations of the study were also presented at the end.