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Centro Interamericano de Investigaciones Psicológicas y Ciencias Afines
2008
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- Measurement of psychosocial health in medical students: Validation of the Jefferson Medical College is Questionnaire in Mexico Mohammadreza Hojat Adelina Alcorta Jesús Ancer Donato Saldívar Santos Guzmán María V. Bermúdez Juan Montes Juan F. González Silvia Tavitas Marco V. Gómez Ana M. Salinas Stefan M. Fernández Zambrano Francisco J. Rodríguez Psicología Validity Medical education Psychosocial measure The greater the psychosocial health, the greater is the wellbeing and the capacity for adaptation and overcoming problems and common life frustrations in family, relationships, and work.Medical students and practicing physicians, in comparison with the general population and that of other professions, are exposed to academic and professional stress and therefore are vulnerable to psychosocial health problems and certain specific dysfunctions that may compromise their physical, mental, and social health. In the field of psychosocial research in medical education, the key issue is to find relevant and psychometrically sound measures. The Jefferson Medical College is Psychosocial Questionnaire contains abridged versions of nine personality tests, as well as questions about respondents elationships with parents in the first five years of life and with classmates in the early schooling. The scales in the questionnaire have shown satisfactory internal consistency reliability and construct validitythrough factor analysis. To our knowledge, in Mexico, there is not a specific questionnaire that measures psychosocial profile in a non-clinical population such as medical students. The present study adapted and translated the questionnaire from English to Spanish in order to evaluate its validity and reliability in Mexican medical students, to further learn its predictive validityof academic performance. In this study, we compared the factor structure in Mexico to the results obtained in the United States research. Implications for predicting academic and clinical performanceof medical students and physicians were discussed. Study participants consisted of 3,603 matriculates at the Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (Mexico)... 2008 artículo científico 0325-8203 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=18025105 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=180 Interdisciplinaria application/pdf Centro Interamericano de Investigaciones Psicológicas y Ciencias Afines Interdisciplinaria (Argentina) Num.1 Vol.25