Impact and Amount of Academic Self-efficacy and Stress on the Mental and Physical Well-Being of Students Competing in the 4th Olympiad of Iranian Universities of Medical Sciences

Studying mental and physical health and their determinants is an important issue, especially among future health providers. This is a sectional-analytical study whose target population was students who had participated in the 4th National Olympiad of Medical Sciences Universities in Tabriz, Iran, held in February 4-7 2013.Web-based designed questionnaires were sent to all 328 participating students’ emails containing our questionnaires that were designed as web-based through Google Drive was sent to all available email addresses of our target population. Questionnaires consisted of student life stress inventory (SLSI), SF-36 (Short Form Health Survey), and College Self-Efficacy Inventory (CSEI), which were translated to Persian and revalidated. The data were analyzed using SPSS ver.19 software. 59 students completely filled the questionnaires and enrolled in the study. In the area of student life stress inventory, the total score of the participants ranged from 79(13.73%) to 168(63.73%) with a mean of 130.74(40.05%) and SD of 21.51(10.84%). On the college self-efficacy scale, participants’ scores ranged from 62(40.79%) to 152(100%) with a mean of 114.29(77.10%) and SD of 22.82(14.20%). On the Sf-36 form, participants scored 72.28±14.09% on average (Min=44.03%, Max=98.75%). The Spearman correlation coefficient test indicated that all correlations between variables were statistically significant (p<0.001). It can be concluded that adopting additional methods to increase self-efficacy and decrease stress amongst medical students in the academic population will lead to improved mental and physical health, which can help national improvement of science.