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Russian medical students in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: emotional reactions and baseline beliefs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2022

Y. Aleksandrovich ,
D. Ivanov ,
I. Gorkovaya ,
V. Titova  and
V. Rozhdestvenskiy
Y. Aleksandrovich
Affiliation:
Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Department Of Psychosomatics And Psychotherapy, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
D. Ivanov
Affiliation:
Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Department Of Psychosomatics And Psychotherapy, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
I. Gorkovaya
Affiliation:
Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Department Of Psychosomatics And Psychotherapy, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
V. Titova*
Affiliation:
Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Department Of Psychosomatics And Psychotherapy, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
V. Rozhdestvenskiy
Affiliation:
Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Department Of Psychosomatics And Psychotherapy, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

During the pandemic of new coronavirus infection, some medical students were actively recruited to work with infected patients, which could provoke depression, anxiety, and stress. The concept of baseline beliefs predicts characteristics of individuals’ experience of trauma.

Objectives

The study aimed to determine depression, anxiety, and stress levels in medical students and examine their baseline beliefs, as well as the relationship between baseline beliefs and emotional reactions.

Methods

Data were collected in the spring and summer of 2020 using a Google form that we developed. Thirty-seven medical students participated in the study. The WAS-37 questionnaire was used to examine baseline beliefs and the DASS-21 to measure depression, anxiety, and stress. Both questionnaires were adapted for use in Russia.

Results

We found that 78 % of the respondents had no depression, 86 % had no manifestations of anxiety, and 83 % felt stress-free. The mean values on the “Benevolence in the World” scale (M = 32.3±8.0) were within the average normative values, those on the “Justice” scale (M = 19.8±5.0) were below them, and those on the “Self-Image” scale (M = 29.6±5.9), “Luck” (M = 32.5±6.9) and “Controlling Beliefs” (M = 27.3±4.1) were above the average normative values. We found only one statistically significant relationship between emotional reactions and baseline beliefs, a negative correlation between depression and luck (rx = -0.360, p < 0.05).

Conclusions

In pandemic medical students, beliefs about one’s luck were associated with lower levels of depression.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

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European Psychiatry , Volume 65 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 30th European Congress of Psychiatry , June 2022 , pp. S488 - S489
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