Medical Student Stress and Adaptation During Pandemic Educational Disruption

Supplementary file 5 from a mixed-methods study by Tarron Kayalackakom, last updated in April 2026. The 18.5 KB DOCX file contains results from a survey of 133 medical students at a Caribbean medical school during the COVID-19 pandemic. It examines perceived stress, mental health challenges, and adaptive coping strategies during a period of major educational disruption.

Use Cases

• Analyze associations between learning modalities and perceived wellbeing strain based on reported correlation coefficients
• Identify thematic patterns in student-reported stress-related challenges and adaptive strategies from qualitative responses
• Examine demographic consistency of reported challenges across student subgroups based on chi-square test results
• Study factors of personal adaptation and structural educational barriers identified through exploratory factor analysis

Strengths

• Includes specific quantitative results, such as 35% of respondents reporting a perceived decline in academic performance
• Reports correlation coefficients for key relationships, such as r=0.69 between lack of face-to-face interaction and difficulty balancing responsibilities
• Based on a defined sample of 133 participating students from a target population of 400
• Employs a mixed-methods approach combining quantitative statistics and qualitative thematic analysis

Limitations

• The underlying raw survey data and column definitions are not provided in the available metadata
• Row count for the primary dataset is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• The 18.5 KB file size suggests the document is a summary report, not the full dataset

Provenance

Source

Tarron Kayalackakom via figshare

Collection Method

Cross-sectional, self-reported electronic questionnaire distributed to medical students

Time Range

During the COVID-19 pandemic (specific dates not provided)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 04:11:58

Geography

A Caribbean medical school