Main Educational Stressors And Theirs Relationship With General Health Of Medical Residents

Abstract

Background: In the age of information and technology application, troublesome regulations and traditional procedures for medical education may cause serious stresses and be a threat to the general health (GH) of the students of medicine.Purpose: To determine the relationship between educational stressors and the general health of residents studying at the Ahwaz Jundishapour University of Medical Sciences (Alums).Method: In this cross sectional study, the study group was consisted of ll4 cooperative residents (69% of all residents in the hospital), who were being trained in a variety of different specialties. The instruments used were the Educational Stressors Questionnaire, including 45 four-choice items and a General Health Questionnaire. When the questionnaires were completed, the results were analyzed through Pierson Correlation Coefficient using the SPSS.Results: The residents mentioned their educational stressors as follows: lack of an arranged curriculum, troublesome educational regulations, deficient educational instruments, and inadequate clinical instruction. of all the subjects, 43 ( 37.6%) appeared to have problems in GH,and significantly positive correlation (p