The review of prospective studies on mental health and quality of life of physicians and medical students. Medycyna Pracy 2020,71(4) in progress doi.org/10.13075/mp.5893.00958
Our study can be applied with other researches related to quality of life measurement among medical staff. The main objective of the presented project is to identify and evaluate the quality of life and general mental health with simultaneous assessment of their determinants related to studying and working conditions in medical students and young physicians during a long-term observation. Additionally, in the model of epidemiological cohort study a control of the socio-demographic factors, as well as those that identify the lifestyle and chronic diseases is planned.
Validation studies done: Texts
The first step of the study was related to the necessity of questionnaire validation. The integrated tool includes the Polish version of the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire, next AUDIT (Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test) and also original questions identifying individual nutrition, demographic, socioeconomic and anthropometric data of subjects. The ethics approval for the study was received from the Bioethical Committee of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice (approval number KNW/0022/KB/217/19; date: 08.11.2019). Written consent was obtained from all participants. Results of preliminary validation will be published this year, manuscript is in preparation.
Availability
Upon request
Strengths
the ICC analysis, the accordance between paper and electronic version of WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire was excellent (ICC equal to 0.9), and the specific domains (ICC 0.88-0.91). Both versions of WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire had good internal consistency (α near or equal to 0.9), while the reliability of the electronic version was higher compared to the paper.
