Challenges of Academic Stress amongst Under developed Country’s Medical Students

Abstract

Main objective of this research paper is to find out the determinants that cause stress in private medical students, in Lahore region Pakistan. According to Richard S.Lazarus “stress is such as a situation when an individual feels that demand has gone beyond the available resources it is state of stress (Richard. L 1999). Practically the academic stress is primarily concerned with two reasons; scarcity and desires, (Lovely Joseph 2018). Increasing ratio of committing suicide among younger people (Nabeeha 2018) has persuaded to conduct this type of study. Pursuing professional studies like medical, engineering, in higher education create stress level higher than other studies (Ashok, Karthik 2019). The scarcity limits medical student demands and the desire is that the loss of something which they expect. This study highlights focuses to know the factors of stress; a random sample of 110 students from the population of two districts in Lahore and Sheikhupura is selected. Primary data was collected through the questionnaire survey. The questionnaire was prepared after analyzing the various aspects of academic stress. It is significant that stress can cause both positive and negative influence on students. As per experts’ extreme stress situations can disturb human health but at the same time moderate stress is normal and mostly source to do well in life.

Keywords: Stress Management, Medical Career stress, Medical Colleges Pakistan. Medical student’s problems