Quality of life and stress factors for veterinary medical students
Quality of life and stress factors for veterinary medical students
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DOI：
10.3138/jvme.32.2.182
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发表时间：
2005-06-01
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1
通讯作者：
Brace, JJ
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作者：
Strand, EB;Zaparanick, TL;Brace, JJ
来自田纳西大学兽医学院（UTCVM）所有四年的289名兽医学生被邀请完成Derogatis压力曲线（DSP）（1）和原始人口统计数据曲线（DDP）。DSP评估了学生目前的感知压力的经验，DDP的目的是收集有关学生的学年，他们的生活状况，他们的经济状况，他们在兽医专业的兴趣领域，以及他们目前应对压力的方法。这些数据被收集作为一个基线测量兽医学生的压力和生活质量的感知水平。在早期的一项研究中，还从教职员工那里收集了有关兽医学院气候和文化质量的数据。DSP和DDP的结果表明，虽然UTCVM的兽医学生总体上没有经历显著的压力水平，但他们确实报告了比普通人群更高的主观压力，时间压力和抑郁水平。兽医专业的学生在个人生活中照顾的伴侣动物越多，他们就越有可能报告更高水平的感知压力。最后，性别之间存在显著差异，女兽医学生报告的压力水平高于男兽医学生。气候和文化数据的初步结果表明，兽医学院的教师和工作人员个人认为他们在工作环境中受到照顾，并集体认为学院追求卓越。
Two-hundred-and-eighty-nine veterinary students from all four years of the University of Tennessee, College of Veterinary Medicine (UTCVM) were invited to complete the Derogatis Stress Profile (DSP)(1) and an original Demographic Data Profile (DDP). The DSP assessed the students' current experiences of perceived stress, and the DDP was designed to gather information about students' academic year, their living situations, their financial situations, their interest area within the veterinary medical profession, and their current methods of coping with stress. These data were gathered as a baseline measure of veterinary medical students' perceived level of stress and quality of life. In an earlier study, data were also collected from faculty and staff about the perceived quality of the climate and culture of the veterinary college. The results of the DSP and DDP suggest that, although veterinary students at UTCVM do not experience significant levels of stress overall, they do report higher levels of subjective stress, time pressure, and depression than the general population. The more companion animals that veterinary students cared for in their personal lives, the more likely they were to report higher levels of perceived stress. Lastly, there were significant differences between genders, with female veterinary students reporting higher levels of perceived stress than their male counterparts. The preliminary results of the climate and culture data suggest that faculty and staff of the veterinary college individually feel that they are cared for in the work environment and collectively believe that the college strives for excellence.