1. Intrinsic component of resilience among entry level medical students in the United Arab Emirates
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Elsheba Mathew, Ashok Joshua, Ahmed Mehzabin, Kameshwari Avula, Rizwana B Shaikh, and Jayakumary Muttappallymyalil
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lcsh:R5-920 ,Medical education ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,education ,Entry Level ,medical students ,General Medicine ,Bachelor ,Data science ,Intrinsic component of resilience ,sociodemographic ,Component (UML) ,Medicine ,lcsh:Medicine (General) ,Resilience (network) ,business ,Research Article ,media_common - Abstract
BackgroundResilience is the capacity to recover and to cope successfullywith everyday challenges. Resilience has intrinsic andextrinsic components and an effort has been made to studythe intrinsic component and its association with sociodemographicfactors, among the entry level students of theIntegrated Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery(MBBS) course.MethodThe present study was conducted in Gulf MedicalUniversity, using a self-administered questionnaire,comprising of two parts, distributed to all the students whoconsented to participate. The first part contained questionson socio-demographic details while the second partcontained questions on the intrinsic and extrinsiccomponents of resilience of the students. The datacollected was analysed using Predictive Analytic Software(PASW) 18.0 using frequency, mean, SD and median.ResultsAmong the 58 students who participated 24 (41.4%) weremales and 34 (58.6%) females, of which 70.7% were < 20years and 29.3% > 20years. The mean score for the intrinsiccomponent of resilience was 48.9 (SD, 5 and range 35–60).The median scores showed no significant variation (p
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- 2011
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