ABSTRACT
Background: A definition of stress is anything that can disturbs the normal individual's mental or physical wellbeing. Medical school is known to be stressful branch in higher education and requires a lot of effort. In fact there is an increase in the incidence of stress between medical students. Young students are more liable to develop stress due to the high competitive field of medicine
Aim of Study: the study is to explore the prevalence of stress among medical students and its effects on their academic performance in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted in under graduate medical students and interns at Faculty of Medicine in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a quota sampling was used. The questionnaire was validated, self -administrated with a Kessler Psychological Distress Scale [K10] used to conduct the data
Results: In total, of 1900 students and interns, 29.5% were males, 70.1% females .The prevalence of stress among undergraduates 82.1% and interns 17.1%, the prevalence of severe stress was in the undergraduate female 84.6%. According to the results the proportion of female who had stress was higher 70.1%than their counterpart males 29.5%. The prevalence of stress was highest among fourth year students 21.1%, and first year 4.8% showed the lowest .There was a high association between a study year and level of stress p >[0.00] There is high association between studying medicine and developing symptoms of stress[ p value 0.001]. Most of the 60.6% of the participants developed symptoms related to exposure to stress, most common symptoms were gastrointestinal [67.19%].There is significant association between marriage and stress [p vale 0.19].There is no association between work and stress [p <0.132].There is no association between martial statues and stress [p value<0.386]
Conclusion: The main result in this study shows high prevalence of stress among medical students in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia compared to others studies .The Level of stress is more among the female students compared to the male students. The main causes of stress are related to hours of sleep, hours of studying and marriage
ABSTRACT
Background: Epilepsy is a disorder of the brain characterized by an enduring predisposition to generate epileptic seizures and by the neurobiological, cognitive, psychological, and social consequences of this condition. The definition of epilepsy requires the occurrence of at least one epileptic seizure
Aim of the Study: To asses and evaluate general population understanding, knowledge and attitude toward epilepsy and epileptic patients
Methods: It's a cross-sectional randomized study conducted in Kingdome of Saudi Arabia. An online questionnaire designed to survey public awareness and attitudes toward epilepsy that posted online and distributed to the public. Estimated about 1000 cases and the statistical package SPSS version 21 was used for data analysis
Result: 20.2% of the participants have a family member with Epilepsy. When asked if they can define Epilepsy; [39.6%] from the Southern region believe that they can, followed by the rest of the regions with similar percentages. 40.3% of female participants knew the causes of epilepsy and also 40.3% of males. The western region was leading with 29% knowing the causes of Epilepsy. [30.4%] of females knew how to handle a seizing patient while only [22.4%] of males knew how. The Western region had the highest positive response [31.5%]. A high percentage of Males [81.2%] did not think that there're different levels of Epilepsy while only [4.3%] of females agree on that. Most the responses received from males [43.6%], females [43.6%] and by regional division; [40%] West, [49%] South, [41.8%] North, [45.5%] Centre, [47.1%] East, agreed that epilepsy isn't a genetic disorder. [36.5%] of females did not think that epilepsy affects the brain function; [29.1%] of males, [34.9%] West, [37.8%] Central, [41.4%] East, [34.5%] North and [22.9%] South had the same opinion
Conclusion: we noticed that the awareness and attitudes of the Saudi public toward epilepsy is less than expected especially from college students. We plan to target all our community from the different level of education and regions for more education in order to lower this stigma of epilepsy