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Assessment of Examination Related Anxiety among Students in a Medical College at Kolkata, India: A Cross-sectional Study
Introduction: Medical education is considered to be one of
the most academically and emotionally demanding training
programmes out of any profession. Stress causes a negative
effect on the students’ psychosocial well-being. Students
having anxiety can experience intense feeling of fear or panic
and also impairs concentration and working memory.
Aim: To estimate the examination related anxiety levels among
medical students. Also, to find out its association with different
lifestyle and behavioural factors.
Materials and Methods: This institution-based cross-sectional
descriptive study was conducted among 365 medical students
of Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal,
India, from February 2022 to March 2022. The study used
predesigned, pretested, and semi-structured questionnaire.
To assess anxiety level, the 10-item Westside Test Anxiety
Scale was used. The scale consists of 10 questions which
are answered based on a 5-point scale. Data was analysed in
Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 16.0.
Results: Out of 365, 108 (29.6%) students suffered from
moderately-high test anxiety during exams in both first and
second professional MBBS year. Only 8.2% students had
comfortably-low test anxiety, whereas, 11.2% had extremelyhigh test anxiety. Among the first year students 37.5% male
and 19.5% female had moderately high to extremely high
level of test anxiety. In second year students 34.6% male and
20.6% female had moderately high to extremely high level of
test anxiety. Male gender, addiction to smoking, addiction to
alcohol, virtual gaming habit, coming from a nuclear family,
and staying at home during exams had greater odds of having
high anxiety than their counterparts. Addiction to smoking
had adjusted odds of 1.52 and was found to be statistically
significant. Students who resided in their homes had 2.34 times
more chances of having high test anxiety and this association
was found to be statistically significant. The practice of yoga
was found to be protective with adjusted odds of 0.31 and
this was also statistically significant.
Conclusion: Male gender, addiction to smoking and alcohol,
virtual gaming habit, coming from a nuclear family and staying
at home during examination time had greater impact on anxiety
level than their counterparts. The practice of yoga was found
to be protective. Involving students in different extra-curricular
activities like outdoor games, yoga, playing music may be
helpful in alleviating anxiety level
Epidemiological predictors of metabolic syndrome in urban West Bengal, India
Introduction: Metabolic syndrome is one of the emerging health problems of the world. Its prevalence is high in urban areas. Though pathogenesis is complex, but the interaction of obesity, sedentary lifestyle, dietary, and genetic factors are known as contributing factors. Community-based studies were very few to find out the prevalence or predictors of the syndrome. Objectives: To ascertain the prevalence and epidemiological predictors of metabolic syndrome. Materials and Methods: A total of 690 study subjects were chosen by 30 clusters random sampling method from 43 wards of Durgapur city. Data were analyzed in SPSS version 20 software and binary logistic regression was done to find out statistical significance of the predictors. Results: Among 32.75% of the study population was diagnosed as metabolic syndrome according to National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III definition with a modification for Asia Pacific cut-off of waist circumference. Odds were more among females (2.43), upper social class (14.89), sedentary lifestyle (17.00), and positive family history. Conclusion: The overall prevalence of metabolic syndrome was high in urban areas of Durgapur. Increased age, female gender, higher social status, sedentary lifestyle, positive family history, and higher education were the statistically significant predictors of metabolic syndrome