Omama Ali, Zahwa Salam, Talia Saeed, Mifrah Rauf Sethi, Muhammad Irfan.
Quality of life of medical and dental students of Peshawar.
J Postgrad Med Inst Jan ;32(02):188-93.

Objective: To find out the Quality of Life (QoL) of medical and dental students of Peshawar. Methodology: This cross-sectional study included students of public and private sector medical and dental colleges of Peshawar. To assess QoL, World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQoL-BREF) instrument was used. This instrument comprises of 26 items, which measure physical health, psychological health, social relationships and environment. Each of the 26 items was rated from 1-5 on a five-point scale. The analysis was carried out using SPSS v.20. Results: The mean age of the sample (n=883) was 20.7 ±1.7 years with majority of female students (n=629, 71.2%). The Cronbach?s alpha reliability of WHOQoL-BREF in our study was 0.910. Medical students had significantly more impairment in the social relationship domain of QoL than dental students (p =.008). Male students had significantly better quality of life in the physical health domain of QoL than female students (p =.003). Similarly, students of private sector had better quality of health in physical health and environment domain of QoL as compared to students of public sector (p =.002 and .008, respectively). There was no significant difference between pre-clinical and clinical students regarding their quality of life. Conclusion: Students from dental colleges had higher scores in the domain of social relationship but female students had poor scores in the domain of physical health. It was also observed that students from public sector colleges had higher mean scores in the domain of environment.

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