Intrinsic component of resilience among the entry level medical students

ABSTRACT

To assess the intrinsic component of resilience and its association with socio-demographic factors among the entry level students of the integrated MRBS course. The present study was conducted on the entry level students of the MBBS course in Gulf Medical College, using a self administered questionnaire comprising of two parts. The first part contained questions pertaining to socio demographic details while the second part contained questions on the intrinsic and extrinsic components of resilience of the students. During the regular class hours, after explaining the purpose of the study, the questionnaire was distributed to all the students who consented to participate. The collected data was analyzed using PASW 18.0 using frequency, mean, SD and median. The present report is based on the analysis of the scores for intrinsic component of resilience and its association with the socio-demographic characteristics of the study group. Among the 58 students who participated 24 [41.4%] were males and 34 [58.6%] females, of which 70.7% were < 20 years and 29.3% >20 years. The mean score for the intrinsic component of resilience was 48.9 with a SD of 5 and the range 35-60. The median scores did not show any significant variation with age, gender, religion, nationality, family structure, education of either parent, the person they share their feelings with or the number of friends. However, minimally higher scores were noted in the median scores of students from nuclear family, western nationality and those whose parents had a university level education, who shared their feelings with people of their own generation or outside their family and who had 5-9 friends. The intrinsic component of resilience was found to be more or less uniform for the study group and the level is high. A study has to further look into its effect on coping with the stresses in the new academic program