Psychological morbidity, sources of stress and coping strategies among undergraduate medical students of Nepal
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- 2 August 2007
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Medical Education
- Vol. 7 (1), 26
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-7-26
Abstract
In recent years there has been a growing appreciation of the issues of quality of life and stresses involved medical training as this may affect their learning and academic performance. However, such studies are lacking in medical schools of Nepal. Therefore, we carried out this study to assess the prevalence of psychological morbidity, sources and severity of stress and coping strategies among medical students in our integrated problem-stimulated undergraduate medical curriculum.Keywords
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