Impacts of covid-19 on academic stress, academic performances and emotional intelligence level among undergraduate students of Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences in Universiti Putra Malaysia

Johari, Muhammad Ikhwan and Wong Yi Hui, Priscilla and Mohammad Al Ansari Loganadan, Nur Hidayah (2021) Impacts of covid-19 on academic stress, academic performances and emotional intelligence level among undergraduate students of Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences in Universiti Putra Malaysia. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Title of Study: Impacts of COVID-19 on Academic Stress, Academic Performances and Emotional Intelligence Level among Undergraduate Students of Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences in Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) Introduction: COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory disease that was first found in Wuhan, Hubei province in China in year 2019 and was declared as worldwide pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO) in 11 March 2020. This pandemic has brought impacts to different fields in the whole world. Academic field is one of the fields that experienced a huge change. Traditional face-to-face learning is switched to online education. Online education burdened students because they would have to adapt to a new learning style. A totally different style of education pressured students as they had to take multiple factors into consideration, for example, conduciveness of study environment. Objective: The study aimed to determine the impacts of COVID-19 on academic stress, academic performance and emotional intelligence level of undergraduate students in Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences in Universiti Putra Malaysia and its association with sociodemographic factors and level of COVID-19 fear. 6 Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 7 months among undergraduate students of Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences in Universiti Putra Malaysia. Students were selected through simple random sampling. Online questionnaire was given via email. Findings: A total of 412 undergraduate students were recruited with a response rate of 100%. The prevalence of mild, moderate and severe academic stress was 5.3%, 60.7% and 34.0% respectively. Most of the respondents were female (72.6%), Malay (64.3%), 2nd year undergraduate students (35.7%), those who were studying Doctor of Medicine (38.3%), from M40 family (43.4%), using WiFi to have online classes (71.4%), had conducive study environment at home (42.5%) and feeling neutral towards online classes (41.0%). Median of age was 21 (IQR = 2), and fear of COVID-19 level was 18 (IQR = 7). By using multiple logistic regression, it was found that the emotional intelligence level (OR 1.685, 95% CI 1.110, 2.560) and academic performances (OR 2.920, 95% CI 1.693-5.034) were significantly associated with course of study. Emotional intelligence level also turned out to be significantly associated with level of COVID-19 fear (OR 1.043, 95% CI 1.003-1.085). Academic performances of undergraduate students were also found to be significantly associated with ethnicity of students, particularly between Malay and Chinese (OR 3.377, 95% CI 1.903-5.993). Conclusion: Our study showed majority of undergraduate students in Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences in Universiti Putra Malaysia were having moderate to severe stress (94.7%), 49.3% having poor emotional intelligence level and almost four-fifth of them were not getting excellent results during this pandemic. This could be said that students were strongly impacted by this pandemic. Intervention is needed 7 for future well-being no matter in terms of academic stress, emotional intelligence level and academic performances of undergraduate students in the faculty.

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
Depositing User:	Ms Norafizah Radzuan
Date Deposited:	04 Sep 2023 06:28
Last Modified:	04 Sep 2023 06:28
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/865

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