Resilience evolution of medical students during the undergraduate period
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5327/Z1984-4840201623647Keywords:
psychological resilience, medical students, quality of lifeAbstract
Objective and Method: This is a descriptive study to identify the degree of resilience in medical students at Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, compare the resilience of different years of undergraduation and relate and compare the degree of resilience to demographic and socioeconomic status. Results: The study population has an average age of 21.68, single 270 (98.18%), caucasians 240 (87.27%), household income of more than 20 minimum wages (34.54%). In resilience general index it was obtained an average of 114 (SD=14.05). There was no significant difference between the scores obtained on the scale during graduation years. It was observed a predominance of moderate resilience in all years of the course and in the total sample. Resilience in medical students, it is shown as an individual characteristic and does not keep relations with gender, age, sexual orientation, race or housing conditions in the various years of the course. Conclusion: It was concluded that there is a predominance of moderate resilience among the medical students. There was no correlation between resilience and familiar incomeDownloads
Metrics
References
Araújo CA. A resiliência. In: Spinelli MR, organizador. Introdução à psicossomática. São Paulo: Atheneu; 2010. p.182-204.
Selye H. The general adaptation syndrome and the diseases of adaptation. J Clin Endocr. 1946;6:117-230.
Job JRPP. Resiliência e ética. Um ethos para a resiliência. In: Araújo CA, Mello MA, Rios AMG. Resiliência: teorias e práticas de pesquisa em psicologia. São Paulo: Ithaka Books; 2011.
Rodrigues RTS. Resiliência e características de personalidade de médicos residentes como proteção para o Burnout e Qualidade de vida [tese]. São Paulo: Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo; 2012.
Wagnild GM, Young, HM. Development and psychometric evaluation of resilience scale. J Meas. 1993;1:165-75.
Pesce RP, Assis SJ, Avanci JQ, Santos NC, Malaquias JV, Carvalhaes L. Adaptação transcultural, confiabilidade e validade da escala de resiliência. Cad. Saúde Pública. 2005;21:436-48.
Wagnild G. A review of the resilience scale. J Nurs Meas. 2009;105:2.
Hull FM. Death, dying and the medical student. Med Educ. 1991;25:491-6.
Rappaport W, Witzke D. Education about death and dying during the clinical years of medical school. Surgery. 1993;113:163-5.
Frank E, Carrera JS, Stratton T, Bickel J, Nora LM. Experiences of belittlement and harassment and their correlates among medical students in the United States: Longitudinal survey. BMJ. 2006;333:682.
Wilkinson TJ, Gill DJ, Fitzjohn J, Palmer CL, Mulder RT. The impact on students of adverse experiences during medical school. Med Teach. 2006;28:129-35.
Sheehan KH, Sheehan DV, White K, Leibowitz A, Baldwin DC Jr. A pilot study of medical student ‘abuse’. Student perceptions of mistreatment and misconduct in medical school. JAMA. 1990;263:533-7.
Testerman JK, Morton KR, Loo LK, Worthley JS, Lamberton HH. The natural history of cynicism in physicians. Acad Med. 1996;71(10 Suppl):S43-5.
Dyrbye LN, Thomas MR, Huntington JL, Lawson KL, Novotny PJ, Sloan JA, et al. Personal life events and medical student burnout: a multicenter study. Acad Med. 2006;81:374-84.
Southwick SM, Vythilingam M, Charney DS. The psychobiology of depression and resilience to stress: Implications for prevention and treatment. Annu Rev Clin Psychol. 2005;1:255-91.
Dyrbye LN, Power, DV, Massie FS, Eacker, A, Harper W, Thomas MR, Szydlo, DW, Sloan JA, Shanafelt TD. Factors associated with resilience to and recovery from burnout: a prospective, multi-institutional study of US medical students. Med Educ. 2010;44:1016-26.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Os autores no momento da submissão transferem os direitos autorais, assim, os manuscritos publicados passam a ser propriedade da revista.
O conteúdo do periódico está licenciado sob uma Licença Creative Commons 4.0, esta licença permite o livre acesso imediato ao trabalho e que qualquer usuário leia, baixe, copie, distribua, imprima, pesquise ou vincule aos textos completos dos artigos, rastreando-os para indexação, passá-los como dados para o software, ou usá-los para qualquer outra finalidade legal.