Stress management training in medical school. J Med Educ 1982 Feb;57(2):91-9
Date
02/01/1982Pubmed ID
7035671DOI
10.1097/00001888-198202000-00003Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84947644523 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 37 CitationsAbstract
It has been widely noted that medical school can be stressful experience for many students and that on completion of their medical education students will enter a profession high in potential stressors. However, very few systematic efforts to teach medical students practical stress management skills have been undertaken. In the study reported here, a group of students volunteered to participate in a six-session program that taught them personal stress management techniques, including self-relaxation training, schedule-planning, priority-setting, leisure time-planning, and cognitive modification techniques. From pretraining to posttraining, the students showed improvement on a variety of measures that included knowledge about stress, self-report inventory scores assessing stress symptoms and life-style, personal ratings of stressful situations, and their daily activity schedules. A control group largely failed to show improvement relative to the stress management training group largely failed to show improvement relative to the stress management training group subjects. The importance of making available to students such specific, behavioral and preventive stress management training is discussed.
Author List
Kelly JA, Bradlyn AS, Dubbert PM, St Lawrence JSAuthor
Jeffrey A. Kelly PhD Professor in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine department at Medical College of WisconsinMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
FemaleHumans
Leisure Activities
Male
Physical Exertion
Psychological Tests
Relaxation Therapy
Schools, Medical
Stress, Psychological
Students, Medical
