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Prevalence of alexithymia among medical students in Nepal: A cross-sectional study based on a self-administered questionnaire.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
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| Author | Karki, Sagun Shrestha, Oshan Thapa, Niranjan Gupta, Satish Chaudhary, Amit Yadav, Abijeet Manandhar, Pradeep |
| Abstract | Background and AimsAlexithymia is a state in which one cannot comprehend and put their emotions or feelings into words. It is a disturbance that is common among general population as well as people with mental health disorders. Medical students are at higher risk of developing alexithymia due to the extensive nature of their course and clinical postings. The presence of alexithymia is negatively correlated with the self‐efficacy of the students eventually affecting self‐care and patient care in the future. The aim of this study is to find the prevalence of alexithymia among medical students in Nepal and know its associated factors.MethodsThis cross‐sectional study used convenient sampling for selecting responders and the TAS‐20 tool for data collection. Data were analyzed by using SPSS 20. Frequency was calculated for all the variables. Prevalence with 95% confidence interval [CI] is reported and the χ 2 test is used to see the difference in alexithymia status among different categories of dichotomous independent variables.ResultsOut of 386 students, 380 of them responded. The ratio of male and female was 1.8 with the mean age of 22.22 ± 1.77 years. The prevalence of alexithymia was found to be 22.89% (95% CI, 18.9−27.1). There was no statistically significant difference between the presence and absence of alexithymia among categories of sex, year of study, staying at hostel, involvement in extracurricular activities, involvement in daily exercise/yoga/outdoor sports, and smoking habit.ConclusionThe prevalence of alexithymia in our study was 22.89% with no association with known factors. |
| Page Count | 5 |
| Journal | Health Science Reports |
| Volume Number | 6 |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC10189862 |
| Issue Number | 5 |
| PubMed reference number | 37205935 |
| e-ISSN | 23988835 |
| DOI | 10.1002/hsr2.1262 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Inc. |
| Publisher Date | 2023-05-17 |
| Publisher Place | Hoboken |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. © 2023 The Authors. Health Science Reports published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. |
| Subject Keyword | affective symptom alexithymia emotional disturbance medical students prevalence |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Medicine |
