Prevalence of Potential Dropout Thoughts and Their Influential Factors Among Saudi Medical Students

Hamza Mohammad Abdulghani, Khulud Alanazi, Raghad Alotaibi, Najlaa Abdulrahman Alsubeeh, Tauseef Ahmad and Shafiul Haque

SAGE Open, 2023, vol. 13, issue 1, 21582440221146966

Abstract: To investigate the incidence and accountable factors for the potential dropout thoughts among Saudi medical students. A cross-sectional survey questionnaire based study was conducted among Saudi medical students enrolled at the College of Medicine, King Saud University. A total number of 587 (39.13%) medical students out of ∼1,500 filled the questionnaire. Among them 302 (51.4%) reported incidence(s) of dropout thoughts at least once. However, only 17 (5.6%) have thought of dropping out very seriously. The majority of the students (67.5%) thought for withdrawal only on stressful days. The first year of the medical school was the most common year for all the students (49.3%) for thinking of dropout and academic problems were the most common reasons behind dropout thoughts (37.8%). The students, whose decision for entering in the medical school was influenced by the surroundings were at higher risk of dropout thoughts than their peers ( OR  = 1.912, CI 1.33–2.75). A significant amount of dropout thoughts was prevalent among Saudi medical students, but serious thinker about dropout were less in numbers. A well-structured academic guidance program supported with psychological teaching method must be designed and offered to diagnose the symptomatic students before actually they get affected with dropout thought which might lead to actual dropout.

Keywords: dropout thoughts; medical student dropout; undergraduate; academic problem; leaves medical school (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21582440221146966 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:sagope:v:13:y:2023:i:1:p:21582440221146966

DOI: 10.1177/21582440221146966

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in SAGE Open
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().