Volume 25, Issue 116, October 2021

Anxiety among medical and non-medical students in Al Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia

Khaled El Tohami Medani¹, Anas Mohammed Ali Alothaim², Abdulrahman Jaser Faris Almutairi², Mohammed Ghanem Faleh Alotaibi², Nasser Jamal Aljasir², Abdulkhaliq Qaed Salem Almutairi²

¹Associate prof. of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Al Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia
²Faculty of Medicine, Al Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Background / Introduction: Definition of anxiety according to American Psychological Association: is an emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts and physical changes like increased blood pressure. Objectives: The objective is to evaluate and compare anxiety among medical and non-medical in Al Majmaah University. Methodology: The design was cross-sectional to evaluate and compare anxiety between medical and non-medical among 310 students in Al Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia. Beck anxiety inventory questioner is administrate to (SPSS) was used to analysis. Results: Show that most of the students were healthy 80%, while the moderate anxiety 10.3% and concerning level of anxiety show 9.7%. Conclusion: There is nearly similar complain of anxiety in both medical and non-medical in al Majmaah university but the deference in moderate and concerning level we see increase number in of moderate in non-medical while increase in concerning level in medical students.

Keywords: anxiety, medical students, non-medical students, Al Majmaah University

Medical Science, 2021, 25(116), 2459-2468

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