Association of COVID-19 Pandemic with Undergraduate Medical Students’ Perceived Stress and Coping [Response to Letter]

• Main Authors: Abdulghani HM, Sattar K, Ahmad T, Akram A
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dove Medical Press 2020-11-01
• Series: Psychology Research and Behavior Management
• Online Access: https://www.dovepress.com/response-association-of-covid-19-pandemic-with-undergraduate-medical-s-peer-reviewed-article-PRBM
• ISSN: 1179-1578

Hamza Mohammad Abdulghani, Kamran Sattar, Tauseef Ahmad, Ashfaq Akram Department of Medical Education, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Kamran SattarDepartment of Medical Education, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaEmail [e-mail] This is in response to the letter by Jie and Muhammad. We appreciate the interest in our article particularizing the Association of COVID-19 Pandemic with undergraduate Medical Students’ Perceived Stress and Coping,1 and your comments. Our primary goal was to delineate an approach used by the medical students in terms of their coping strategies adopted to tackle the stress ascending from the current pandemic situation. In our college, the male-female ratio contrasts;2 additionally, our investigation essentially required volunteer participation.1 which leads us to a natural but unequal number of participants (ie male and female). Moreover, as a well-recognised practice in contemporary research, our results were presented as the percentage of participants, not their numbers. Therefore, there does not remain any issue of partiality.    View the original paper by Abdulghani and colleagues   This is in response to the Letter to the Editor