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ArticleJournal of clinical laboratory analysis2022

Isolation insult during COVID-19 pandemic on the psychological status of medical students.

Israa Faeck Jaafar, Sahar Ahmed Mehdi, Al-Hasan M Fawzi

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Article in Journal of clinical laboratory analysis, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The impact of affective and cognitive empathy on stress in medical students.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Israa Faeck JaafarAl-Esraa University College, Baghdad, Iraq.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2799-5517
Sahar Ahmed MehdiAl-Turath University College, Baghdad, Iraq.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7316-8336
Al-Hasan M FawziCollege of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq.
Al Mansour University College · IQAl-Turath University · IQUniversity of Baghdad · IQ

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCOVID-19 is a newly discovered infectious disease that spread and caused a global health problem. Medical students, especially those in clinical stages are among groups exposed to the disease. The study aimed to show the impact of social distancing on the mental health of Iraqi medical students.

methodA convenient sampling technique involved 105 participants was obtained through a questionnaire. The participants were from all stages of College Of Medicine. Questions were regarding the mental health status of the students, which included sleeping hours, nightmares, eating habits, weight problems, relationship with the family, starting to have bad habits, memory loss, attention problems, irritability, and study rank affect.

resultsOf about 105 participants, 64 (60.9%) of them were females and 41 (39.1%) were males. The mean age of the participants was (21.26 ± 1.065) ranging from 19 to 24 years. Feeling stressful when hearing news about COVID-19″ found in 82 (78.1%) of the participants. A high statistical significant difference (p = 0.035) among feeling isolated. About 77 (73.3%) of the participants had become easily irritable and angry. About 82 (78.1%) student started for having calculation problems. The stress with sleeping hours (p = 0.019), sleeping disturbance (p = 0.022), eating habit (p = 0.015), weight problems (p = 0.002), fear of familiar places (p = 0.004), recent memory loss (p = 0.034) and being easily irritable or angry (p = 0.0001), revealed a statistical significant association, respectively.

conclusionCOVID-19 news and social distancing had made medical students more stressed and irritable, affecting their sleeping hours and pattern with a general tendency for weight gain and recent memory loss in stressful students.

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COVID-19Students, MedicalAdultFemaleHumansMaleMemory DisordersPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Young AdultappetiteCOVID-19irritabilitymedical studentsmental healthsleeping hoursstress

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