The journey of medical field students: uncovering medical student syndrome, personality traits, and their interactions
Around one-third of the sample experienced preoccupation with fears of having a serious disease, with a trivial number of students meeting the criteria for anxiety disorder or hypochondriasis. More than one-third reported negative impacts on sleep, productivity, concentration, and heart rate. Females, Egyptian students, those from rural areas, and dentistry students had higher anxiety scores, whereas medical students had the lowest scores.
Authors
- Heba A Abdel Salam
- Hossam Tharwat Ali
- Samar A. Amer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9475-6372)
- Mohamed Khaled Khorkhash (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0038-5409)
- Fatma Ibrahim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4781-5544)
- Mohamed Abdellatif (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1141-1510)
- A. Abd-Alla (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3712-0087)
- S Hussein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5916-1595)
- Feras Ammar Alsabbagh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7458-0800)
- Nesreen Kamel Elsayed
Institutions
- South Valley University (EG)
- Zagazig University (EG)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Psychology
- Published
- 2025-05-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02788-9
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.94
Funders
- South Valley University