Imran Saeed, Nabiha Farasat Khan, Arshad Kamal Butt.
Impact of Marital Status on Postgraduate Medical Students Research Activities.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;12(4):1574-6.

Aim: To analyze the impact of marital status of post graduate medical trainees on research activities at The Children Hospital, Lahore. Methods: A quantitative cross sectional survey was carried out at The Children’s Hospital Lahore, Pakistan. All (10 5) pediatrics medicine postgraduate trainee s were recruited to fill a validated questionnaire , 90 of them returned the completed proforma (response rate of 86%). Data was coded, entered and analyzed by SPSS Results: More than half of the participants (64% ) were females. Majority (71% ) were between the age of 25- 33 years (Mean age 28-22 years +/- 2.092) , 63% Postgraduate trainees were unmarried (n=57/90). Social / Family commitment issues were faced by 84.8% married postgraduate trainees (p-0.001) whereas lack of motivation was observed a huge hurdle in research activities of 85.9 % unmarried postgraduate trainees (p-0.02) . Conclusion: In the current study, unmarried postgraduate trainees are in majority and they experience lack of motivation which decreases their scientific activities whereas social/family constraints are a major hurdle that reduces the research work in married postgraduate trainees .

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