Academic resilience in medical students: exploring students’ perception of social support provided by peers and teachers to help at-risk students for the successful academic journey

作者：Sabeen Saad, Shabana Ali · 发表于：BMC Medical Education · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1186/s12909-025-06858-9 · 被引用次数：17 · 研究领域：Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout、Resilience and Mental Health、COVID-19 and Mental Health

BACKGROUND: Medical students are at risk of developing depression and burnout; particularly vulnerable are the first-year students. The COVID pandemic has reemphasized the need for assessing and teaching resilience strategies to the students to promote well-being and develop help-seeking attitudes so that they could work better in a collaborative environment. AIM OF THE STUDY: To determine the level of resilience in private medical and dental colleges and explore perceptions of students regarding social support provided by peers and teachers in achieving resilience. METHOD: A mixed-methods (sequential explanatory design) study was done at Islamic International Medical and Dental College (Riphah international university) after securing ethical approval from institutional review committee (IRC). To measure resilience, the health professional resilience scale (MeRS) was used, and scores were compared between male/female and 1st and 2nd year Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery/Bachelor of Dental Surgery (MBBS/BDS). A total of three hundred (n = 300) students were contacted. An independent sample T-test was applied to compare the means of the four domains. A Chi-squared test was used to compare the frequency distribution of different categories and between BDS/MBBS and M/FM students. In the 2nd phase, we explored the perception of social support and the role of teachers and peers using the "perceived social support (PSS)" parameter. Twelve students were selected for inter...