PMID- 36767260
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230214
LR  - 20230318
IS  - 1660-4601 (Electronic)
IS  - 1661-7827 (Print)
IS  - 1660-4601 (Linking)
VI  - 20
IP  - 3
DP  - 2023 Jan 19
TI  - Psychological Resilience and Coping Strategies with Anxiety among Malaysian 
      Medical Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
LID - 10.3390/ijerph20031894 [doi]
LID - 1894
AB  - Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) swept the world by storm and caused a myriad 
      of devastating consequences, particularly disruptions in medical education. This 
      study aims to examine the association between sociodemographic factors, 
      psychological factors, coping strategies and anxiety among medical students, as 
      well as to identify the predictors of anxiety among them. A cross-sectional study 
      design was used. Self-rated Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), General 
      Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES), Brief Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced 
      Scale (Brief COPE), and General Anxiety Disorder-7 Scale (GAD-7) were used. A 
      total of 371 respondents from a tertiary education center were recruited. The 
      prevalence of anxiety was 37% which corresponded to 21.6% and 15.4% for moderate 
      and severe anxiety, respectively. Sociodemographic factors such as age group and 
      academic year were significantly associated with anxiety, while those with higher 
      self-esteem (r(s) = -0.487), self-competence (r(s) = -0.407), self-liking (r(s) = 
      -0.499), and self-efficacy (r(s) = -0.245) had lower anxiety. Inversely, those 
      who adopted emotion-focused (r(s) = 0.130) and dysfunctional coping styles (r(s) 
      = 0.559) showed higher anxiety. The main predictors of anxiety were self-liking 
      as a protective factor (aOR = 0.81) and dysfunctional coping as a risk factor 
      (aOR = 1.16). Therefore, resilience building and inculcating positive coping 
      strategies are imperative in equipping our budding healthcare providers to 
      weather through future unforeseeable disasters.
FAU - Teh, Bentham Liang Sen
AU  - Teh BLS
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8737-1888
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University 
      Putra Malaysia, Selangor 43400, Malaysia.
FAU - Ang, Jin Kiat
AU  - Ang JK
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2307-5294
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University 
      Putra Malaysia, Selangor 43400, Malaysia.
FAU - Koh, Eugene Boon Yau
AU  - Koh EBY
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University 
      Putra Malaysia, Selangor 43400, Malaysia.
FAU - Pang, Nicholas Tze Ping
AU  - Pang NTP
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1659-6374
AD  - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu 
      88400, Malaysia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230119
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Int J Environ Res Public Health
JT  - International journal of environmental research and public health
JID - 101238455
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Resilience, Psychological
MH  - *Students, Medical/psychology
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Pandemics
MH  - *COVID-19/epidemiology
MH  - Depression/psychology
MH  - Adaptation, Psychological
MH  - Anxiety/epidemiology/psychology
MH  - Anxiety Disorders/epidemiology
MH  - Stress, Psychological/epidemiology
PMC - PMC9914482
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - COVID-19
OT  - anxiety
OT  - coping
OT  - medical students
OT  - self-efficacy
OT  - self-esteem
COIS- No conflict of interest was declared by the author.
EDAT- 2023/02/12 06:00
MHDA- 2023/02/15 06:00
PMCR- 2023/01/19
CRDT- 2023/02/11 01:12
PHST- 2022/12/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/01/14 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2023/01/15 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/02/11 01:12 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/02/12 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/02/15 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2023/01/19 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ijerph20031894 [pii]
AID - ijerph-20-01894 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/ijerph20031894 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jan 19;20(3):1894. doi: 
      10.3390/ijerph20031894.