The Relationship of Anxiety Disorders and The Incident of Dyspepsia Syndrome In Pre-Clinical Students of The Faculty of Medicine, University of Alkhairaat

Abstract

Student mental health is one of the most worrying problems worldwide. Medical students are more vulnerable to mental health issues. One of these is anxiety disorder, due to several factors such as academic stress, obstacles to achieving goals, environmental changes, and challenges such as the transition from school to university and the change of roles from student to student. The impact of anxiety disorders can affect the gastrointestinal system's motility and sensitivity to the stomach, such as dyspepsia syndrome, which will affect the quality of learning and academic processes in students. The aim of this study is to find out the influence of anxiety disorder on the occurrence of dyspepsia syndrome in students in the Pre-Clinic of the Medical Faculty of the University of Alkhairaat. The method of this research uses observational analytical research with a cross-sectional approach carried out in pre-clinics students of the medical faculty of Alkairaat University by filling out the Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (HARS) and Short Form Leeds Dyspepsy Questionnaires. (SFLD-Q ). Sampling techniques used total sampling, with a total of 159 respondents from the 2020, 2021, and 2022 forces meeting the research criteria. The research was analyzed univariately and bivariately using the Spearman correlation test. The findings of a study of 159 respondents on anxiety disorder revealed that 57.9% had no anxiety, 25.2% had mild anxiety, 9.4% had moderate anxiety, 6.9% had severe anxiety, and 0.6% had very severe anxiety. 20.8% had no dyspepsia, 52.8% had mild, 20.1 had moderate, and 6.3% had severe. The results of the bi-variant analysis in this study resulted in p = 0,001 (p< 0.05) and r = 0,491. The conclusion of this study is that there is a sufficient and directed relationship between anxiety disorder caused by the occurrence of dyspepsia syndrome in students at the Pre-Clinic Medical Faculty of Alkhairaat University.