Psychological morbidity, sources of stress and coping strategies among undergraduate medical students of Nepal

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Sreeramareddy, Chandrashekhar T ^a   Shankar, Pathiyil R ^a   Binu, V S ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Chiranjoy ^b   Ray, Biswabina ^b   Menezes, Ritesh G ^a  

^a MANIPAL COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Nepal)

^b KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HALFWAY HOUSE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL STUDENT; NEPAL; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; STRESS; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEPAL; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PREVALENCE; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34548268949     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-7-26     Document Type: Article

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