Investigation on learning procrastination and its influencing factors among medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic

doi:10.3760/cma.j.cn115259-20201118-01602

Abstract

Abstract: Objective To find the situation of students' learning procrastination during the COVID-19 pandemic and to analyze the influence factors.Methods In March 2020, totally 4668 medical students from 5 medical universities in China were joined this project and were investigated with General Procrastination scale, future time insight scale and boredom tendency questionnaire.Results The total learning procrastination score of medical students was (63.64±9.39), the median score was 63.00. The total score of future time perceptive was [57.00(52.00,64.00)] , and the total score of boredom was [101.00(80.00,120.00)]. The total academic procrastination score of male students (64.35±11.96) was higher than that of female students (63.34±8.07), the total score of clinical medical students (64.28±10.63) was higher than that of nursing students (63.42±8.98) and other students (63.34±8.70), the total score of medical students with junior college degree (66.57±11.52) was higher than that of medical students with undergraduate degree (63.50±9.34) and that of medical students with graduate degree (64.81±8.37), the total score of medical students in vocational colleges (66.67±12.53) was higher than that of medical students in undergraduate colleges (63.57±9.30), and all the difference was statistically significant (all P<0.05). Spearman correlation analysis showed that academic procrastination was negatively correlated with future time perception and creativity of medical students (r=-0.163, -0.233), and the differences were statistically significant (P<0.01).Conclusions The learning procrastination of medical students needs to be corrected. Medical educators can alleviate the extent of learning procrastination of medical students by implementing target-oriented and population-based education method for different groups of medical students.

Key words: COVID-19 pandemic, Medical students, Learning procrastination, Influencing factor, Future time perceptive, Boredom

CLC Number:

R-05

Sun Aihua, Li Xinxin. Investigation on learning procrastination and its influencing factors among medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic[J]. Chinese Journal of Medical Education, 2021, 41(11): 986-989.

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