Comparision of levels of Anxiety among health sciences students

Dr. ?lker ET?KAN; Dr. �zg�r TOSUN; Rukayya ALKASSIM; Sulaiman ABUBAKAR

Volume : V, Issue : VI, June - 2016

Comparision of levels of Anxiety among health sciences students

Dr. Lker Et Kan, Dr. Zg R Tosun, Rukayya Alkassim, Sulaiman Abubakar

Abstract :

 Medical and pharmacy students’ endeavor to become medical doctors and pharmacists respectively undergoes a lot of challenges and hardship. There are some frustrations, fear, stress, among others, which they used to suffer before they graduate. Whose anxiety level is higher among these two sets of students? This study compared the test anxiety state among year one medical and pharmacy students. Sample of 260 students were selected through simple random sampling technique from the Near East University, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, who are in 2015/2016 academic year. Correlation and regression were used to test the association between the variables and to fit the best model. Mann Whitney U non-parametric test was used to compare the anxiety level between the students since some of the assumptions of using the parametric test are violated. The result shows a statistically significant difference between the anxiety level in medical students and that of pharmacy students, and the descriptive statistics shows that the median anxiety score of medical students is higher than the median anxiety score of pharmacy students.