Medical students at higher alcohol
abuse risk: Study
New York: A team of US researchers
has found that medical students, especially who are young, single and under
high debt are twice as likely to abuse alcohol than their peers who are not
attending medical school.
Burnout factors such as emotional
exhaustion or feelings of depersonalisation were highly associated with alcohol
abuse or dependence among the medical students.
"Our findings clearly show there
is reason for concern," said Liselotte Dyrbye from Mayo Clinic in the US.
"We recommend institutions pursue
a multifaceted solution to address related issues with burnout, the cost of
medical education and alcohol abuse," Dyrbye added in the paper published
in the journal Academic Medicine.
The researchers surveyed 12,500 medical
students and one-third of those responded. Approximately 1,400 of that subgroup
experienced clinical alcohol abuse or dependence.
The results indicate three factors that
were independently associated -- a younger age than most peers in medical
school, being unmarried and amount of educational debt.
No statistical difference was found
between differing years of medical school or between men and women.
"In our paper we recommend wellness curricula for
medical schools, identifying and remediating factors within the learning
environment contributing to stress and removal of barriers to mental health
services," added first author Eric Jackson.
Source: www.zeenews.india.com
16.03.2016
It takes less time to do things right
than to explain why you did it wrong
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