The interplay between academic performance and quality of life among preclinical students

The high academic performance of medical students greatly influences their professional competence in long term career. Meanwhile, medical students greatly demand procuring a good quality of life that can help them sustain their medical career. This study examines validity and reliability of the too...

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Published in:BMC medical education 2015-10, Vol.15 (193), p.193-193, Article 193
Main Authors: Shareef, Mohammad Abrar, AlAmodi, Abdulhadi A, Al-Khateeb, Abdulrahman A, Abudan, Zainab, Alkhani, Mohammed A, Zebian, Sanderlla I, Qannita, Ahmed S, Tabrizi, Mariam J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Activities of daily living
Analysis
Clinical Competence
College Students
Cross-Sectional Studies
Education, Medical, Undergraduate - methods
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Female
Health education
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Psychometrics
Quality of Life
Reproducibility of Results
Saudi Arabia
Sex Factors
Students, Medical - psychology
Students, Medical - statistics & numerical data
Surveys and Questionnaires
Universities
World Health Organization
Young Adult
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Summary:The high academic performance of medical students greatly influences their professional competence in long term career. Meanwhile, medical students greatly demand procuring a good quality of life that can help them sustain their medical career. This study examines validity and reliability of the tool among preclinical students and testifies the influence of their scholastic performance along with gender and academic year on their quality of life. A cross sectional study was conducted by distributing World Health Organization Quality of Life, WHOQOL-BREF, survey among medical students of year one to three at Alfaisal University. For validity, item discriminate validity(IDV) and confirmatory factor analysis were measured and for reliability, Cronbach's α test and internal item consistency(IIC) were examined. The association of GPA, gender and academic year with all major domains was drawn using Pearson's correlation, independent samples t-test and one-way ANOVA, respectively. A total of 335 preclinical students have responded to this questionnaire. The construct has demonstrated an adequate validity and good reliability. The high academic performance of students positively correlated with physical (r = 0.23, p 
ISSN:1472-6920
1472-6920
DOI:10.1186/s12909-015-0476-1