Comparing the Quality of Life of the 1st - 6th Year Medical Students at the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital
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The objectives of this research were to compare the quality of life of the medical students at the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, in their first to sixth year, categorized by academic year and quality of life domains, and to measure the level of the quality of life of the first to sixth-year medical students. The sample size of 324 medical students was determined by the G*Power program. The proportion of the voluntary respondents for each academic year was specified. The research tool was a questionnaire developed by the Department of Mental Health (2002) as an abridged version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment (WHOQOL-BREF-THAI). The questionnaire assessed four domains: physical health, the mind, social relationships and environment, having Cronbach's reliability coefficient of 0.8406, and a validity coefficient of 0.6515. Data collection began after the Institutional Review Board's permission was obtained. Medical students received information about the research process and gave their consent, permission also was obtained from instructors and relevant staff to collect data from the medical students. The data analysis employed percentage, mean, and analysis of variance (ANOVA).
In this study, the highest overall quality of life was found in the first-year medical students, with an average score of 91.50, while the lowest was in the sixth-year medical students, with an average score of 83.77. The results of the analysis of variance showed significant differences in the mean scores of the quality of life from the first to the sixth year at the .05 level across physical health, the mind, environmental domains, and overall quality of life. The multiple comparison test with the LSD method revealed differences in at least one pair.
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