Abstract

A STUDY OF SELF-PRODUCED DISTRACTERS IN MEDICAL STUDENTS AT SYRIAN PRIVATE UNIVERSITY

Youssef Latifeh, Omar Ebrahim, Dina Al Kabbani and Mhd Nezar Alsharif*

ABSTRACT

Objective: This research aimed to study the personal and physiological factors of distraction among medical students. Materials and Methods: This is a cross sectional study including medical students at faculty of medicine of Syrian Private University during the academic year 2017/2018. We had 306 participants. A self-administered questionnaire, which included demographic information such as gender, academic year, age, and others, was given to the students. Results: Our study included 306 participants divided to 190 males (62.1%) and 116 females (37.9%). We found that the most common personal distracters were being hungry in lecture. In our study with 268 participants (88.4%) not affected by eating, drinking or gum chewing. Conclusion: Attention and Concentration are very important to get efficient work, loss of focus and lack of concentration can lead to many problems in the future.

Keywords: Attention, self-produced Distraction, medical students.