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W(5)H(1): New Research Article #1: The Relationship between Test Anxiety and Academic Performance among Undergraduate Medical Students: A Cross-sectional Study

1. How was data collected (methodology)? Cut and paste the paragraph below that describes the methodology and HIGHLIGHT the indicator words that specifically show you the methodology :

The article uses cross-sectional study design.

“This cross-sectional study was conducted in a rural BPS Government Medical College for Women, Khanpur Kalan, Sonepat from January 2018 to December 2018 for a period of one year. The study population included all the undergraduate medical students enrolled in a government medical college from 2013 to 2017” (Jha et al., 2019).

1. What were the findings? Cut and paste the paragraph below that describes the findings and HIGHLIGHT the sentences that specifically show you the summary of findings:

The findings indicated that majority of students experienced healthy test anxiety while a quarter of students did not suffer any anxiety

“ More than one quarter (26.3%) of the students did not suffer from test anxiety, 62.9% students exhibited healthy test anxiety and 10.8% of the students experienced unhealthy level of test anxiety. Table 2 shows association of socio-demographic variables and academic performance of the students with their anxiety level. Almost equal proportion of level of anxiety was found among both the age groups (P = 0.6). The proportion of no anxiety was found higher (29.4%) among participants belonged to urban area when compared to those belonged to rural area (16.7%) while healthy anxiety and unhealthy anxiety was found higher among students belonged to rural area in comparison to urban area (68.3 vs 61.1 %) and (15.0% vs 9.4%) respectively and the differences were insignificant (P = 0.1)” (Jha et al., 2019).

W(5)H(1): New Research Article #2: Psychological and other Correlates of Academic Performance in Medical Students at a Tertiary Care Hospital

1. How was data collected (methodology)? Cut and paste the paragraph below that describes the methodology and HIGHLIGHT the indicator words that specifically show you the methodology :

The study applied cross-sectional design in data collection method.

“ A cross-sectional study was conducted at All India Institute of Medical Science, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India, for 1 year among the undergraduate medical students from 2016 to 2020 academic year” (Semwal et al., 2022).

1. What were the findings? Cut and paste the paragraph below that describes the findings and HIGHLIGHT the sentences that specifically show you the summary of findings:

The study outcomes showed that there was little correlation between anxiety and influence on academic performance.

“ The result of my study indicates that there was no statistically significant association between the anxiety trait and academic performance. Some studies found significant correlation between academic achievement and negative emotionality,[18] but another study showed that emotional stability predicts academic achievement.[19] One article showed no correlation[20] and another two cited agreeableness[21] and extraversion.[19] Seven articles found to had emotional stability, conscientiousness, and agreeable personality correlate with academic achievement” (Semwal et al., 2022).

W(5)H(1): New Research Article #3: Exam Anxiety in Professional Medical Students

1. How was data collected (methodology)? Cut and paste the paragraph below that describes the methodology and HIGHLIGHT the indicator words that specifically show you the methodology :

The study applied observational cross-sectional method with use of questionnaire to gather evidence.

“The present study is an observational cross sectional study, held in 387 medical professional students of Government Medical College, Chandrapur. The study duration was of one year that is, June 2018 to June 2019. A suitable questionnaire was prepared which consisted of four parts” (Loya & Jiwane, 2019).

1. What were the findings? Cut and paste the paragraph below that describes the findings and HIGHLIGHT the sentences that specifically show you the summary of findings:

The findings showed that most of the students had healthy anxiety. Additionally, majority of the participants perceived that anxiety negatively affected their performance.

“ 36 (9%) students had unhealthy anxiety, 269 (70%) students had healthy anxiety and 82(21%) students had no anxiety” (Loya & Jiwane, 2019).

“Out of 387 students, 133 (34%) perceived that stress didn’t have any effect on their performance while 254(67%) felt that stress affected their performance. Out of them, 82(21%) students said that there was improvement in performance due to anxiety but 172(45%) students had their performance deteriorated” (Loya & Jiwane, 2019).

W(5)H(1): New Research Article #4: The impact of anxiety and depression on academic performance

1. How was data collected (methodology)? Cut and paste the paragraph below that describes the methodology and HIGHLIGHT the indicator words that specifically show you the methodology :

The methodology applied was cross-sectional descriptive design.

“This institution-based cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted among 365 medical students (first and second year) of Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, from February 2022 to March 2022” (Roy et al., 2022).

1. What were the findings? Cut and paste the paragraph below that describes the findings and HIGHLIGHT the sentences that specifically show you the summary of findings:

The study results revealed that most of the students had moderate to extremely high anxiety levels, and males formed the majority.

“ The study revealed moderately high to extremely high anxiety level in 205 (56.2%) students. Among them 132 (36.2%) were male and 73 (20%) were female. On further categorisation of students based on the Westside test anxiety scale, it is seen that about 108 (29.6%) of the students suffered from moderately-high test anxiety during exams. Only 8.2% had comfortably low test anxiety whereas 11.2% had extremely high test anxiety as per the scale. Among the first year students 37.5% male and 19.5% female had moderately high to extremely high level of test anxiety. In second year students 34.6% male and 20.6% female had moderately high to extremely high level of test anxiety” (Roy et al., 2022).

References

Jha, S. K., Punia, A., & Babita, B. (2019, February). The Relationship between Test Anxiety and Academic Performance among Undergraduate Medical Students: A Cross-sectional Study. In  Proceedings of International Conference on Sustainable Computing in Science, Technology and Management (SUSCOM), Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur-India. https://www.readcube.com/articles/10.2139/ssrn.3358112

Loya, N. S., & Jiwane, N. N. (2019). Exam Anxiety in Professional Medical Students.  International Journal of Research and Review. https://mail. jpma. org. pk/PdfDownload/1364. https://www.ijisrt.com/assets/upload/files/IJISRT19AUG681.pdf

Roy, S. K., Majumdar, S., Mukherjee, M., & Paul, A. (2022). Assessment of Examination Related Anxiety among Students in a Medical College at Kolkata, India: A Cross-sectional Study.  Journal of Clinical & Diagnostic Research,  16(10). https://www.jcdr.net/articles/PDF/17079/58219_CE(AD)_F(SHU)_PF1(SC_SS)_PFA(SS)_PB(SC_SS)_PN(SS).pdf

Semwal, P., Kumari, R., Rawat, V. S., Aravindan, N., & Dhankar, A. (2022). Psychological and other Correlates of Academic Performance in Medical Students at a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Study.  Indian Journal of Community Medicine,  47(3), 364-368. 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_1067_21