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20846838

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-11-16
pubmed:abstractText
The dissection course (DC) is an essential part of the preclinical medical curriculum that mediates professionalism. The process of dissecting, however, has an inherent additional stress potential. Our study determined student mental stress, their need of psychological support and factors influencing this need. A quantitative longitudinal query before, during and after the DC was performed including the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) as well as self-formulated questions used a 5-point Likert scale. Half of the students who anticipated dissection to be a stress factor reported that this declined significantly over time. Instead, student fear of not being able to cope with the work load increased significantly. As many as 64% of the students favored psychological support on the first course day, while 75% rejected this during the period of dissection and 39% appreciated this after the course. Moreover, 42% emphasized the importance of the funeral ceremony. Additionally, 75% documented their need for support in coping with stress and learning strategies. Gender, previous medical training, and BSI levels were identified as psychosocial influence factors. A majority of students named friends, members of their family or workmates as partners with whom they could talk about mental stress. Our results document the need to develop an optimum support during the DC taking into account the ascertained indicators. Exemplarily the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Ulm University suggests several options like a step by step approach for optimization. These measures reduce mental stress and help students to cope with it by the development of "detached concern" towards their "first patient" as this will decisively influence their future professional behavior.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1618-0402
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
2010 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
192
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
366-72
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
How can we deal with mental distress in the dissection room?-An evaluation of the need for psychological support.
pubmed:affiliation
Ulm University, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany. anja.boeckers@uni-ulm.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article