The study of negative emotional state, the comparison of depression, anxiety and stress levels among the fresh and repeater students of ETEA/MDCAT at district Peshawar 2023.

Abstract

Depression is related with some negative past experiences in life. If a person has sadness, low mood and lack of interest in life for two weeks, it is indication for depression. Anxiety is the feeling of fear and worry about anything before its occurrence while stress is the tension associated with complicated unachievable multiple goals. Students suffer from depression and anxiety before and during examination. The objective of the study was to assess depression, anxiety and stress level between the fresh and the repeater students of ETEA /MD-CAT in Peshawar. To determine the prevalence of depression, anxiety & stress level of fresh and repeater students of ETEA/MD CAT of F. Sc pre-medical students of Peshawar. To correlate these three variables in both fresh and repeater students .The descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in Peshawar from 500 F.Sc pre-medical students. Purposive sampling technique was used. DAAS-21 research tool was used to evaluate stress depression and anxiety among premedical students in Peshawar region with descriptive. The data was analyzed on SPSS-21. Results Out of 500 fresh and repeater students appeared for medical test 329 (65.8%) were male & 161(32.2%) were female with mean (M=1.48, SD=1.17) having depression (M=7.3, SD=6.2), anxiety (M=8.9, SD=5.4) and stress (M=7.5, SD=4.8). The depression, anxiety & stress was found to be positively correlated. Fresh and repeater students have strong correlation with depression anxiety and negative correlated with stress (r=.56, p <0.05).  Anxiety was high in fresh students while depression was very high in repeater students. Severe stress was comparatively high in repeaters while moderate in fresh students.