Farah Rehman, Imran Saeed, Nabiha Farasat Khan, Humera Shahzad, Abdul Rehman Janjua, Zeeshan Ajmal.
Measuring the Level of Examination Anxiety among Students in a Private Medical College in Lahore.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;12(3):1084-6.

Background: Examination anxiety is usually a combination of reactions that typically involve depression, excessive worry, irrelevant thinking, and tension stimuli based on the individual's experience of evaluation , test and result . Aim : To measuring the Level of Examination Anxiety among Students in a Private Medical College. Methods: It was a cross sectional descriptive quantitative study. The participants enrolled after taking consents from all students , those studying in central park medical college Lahore , pre-designed questionnaire was used to collect the data. The multiple rounds of data collection were done. The data was analyzed by SPSS 20 , qualitative variables present in the form of frequency and percentage. Statistical test like Independent t-test and chi-square test was applied to obtain the required results. Level of significance was taken as ≤5%. Results: The mean age of participants was 22.14+/- 2.44 years whereas maximum 28 and minimum 17 years. 199(66.3%) participants having age group between 21-25 years. There were 135(45%) male and 165(55%) female participants in this study. The average anxiety level on VAS was evaluated as 62.21 +/- 23.01, students showed mild 34(11.33%), 141(47%) moderate and 125(41.67%) with severe anxiety level. Response showed that mostly students of all professionals have moderate anxiety and especially in 3rd years 72(73.9%) students suffered at moderate level of anxiety. The severe level of anxiety was observed among students of 2nd years as 51(6 4.6%) , results showed the statistically significant difference of level of anxiety between batches of medical students as p- value < 0.001.Conclusion: This study indicates moderate level of exam anxiety based on Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). Teachers, parents, and college administration should work together to reduce the level of stress and enhance their strategy that promote a healthy lifestyle. Stress management and time management should be taught along with first year curricula.

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