title: Intrinsic component of resilience among entry level medical students in the United Arab Emirates.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Resilience is the capacity to recover and to cope successfully with everyday challenges. Resilience has intrinsic and extrinsic components and an effort has been made to study the intrinsic component and its association with sociodemographic factors, among the entry level students of the Integrated Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) course.
  
  
  METHODS
  The present study was conducted in Gulf Medical University, using a self-administered questionnaire, comprising of two parts, distributed to all the students who consented to participate. The first part contained questions on socio-demographic details while the second part contained questions on the intrinsic and extrinsic components of resilience of the students. The data collected was analysed using Predictive Analytic Software (PASW) 18.0 using frequency, mean, SD and median.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among the 58 students who participated 24 (41.4%) were males and 34 (58.6%) females, of which 70.7% were < 20 years and 29.3% ≥ 20years. The mean score for the intrinsic component of resilience was 48.9 (SD, 5 and range 35-60). The median scores showed no significant variation (p<0.05) with age, gender, religion, nationality, family structure, highest education among parents, the person they share their feelings with or the number of friends. However, minimally higher scores were noted in the median scores of students from nuclear families, with Western nationality and those whose parents had a university level education, who shared their feelings with people of their own generation or outside their family and who have 5-9 friends.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The intrinsic component of resilience was found to be almost uniform for the study group and the level is high. A study has to further look into its effect on coping with the stresses encountered during the academic year.
authors: Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University ,  Ajman,  UAE.
authors: Ahmed
authors: A
authors: Mehzabin
authors: Kameshwari
authors: K
authors: Avula
authors: Elsheba
authors: E
authors: Mathew
authors: Ashok
authors: A
authors: Joshua
authors: Rizwana B
authors: RB
authors: Shaikh
authors: Jayakumary
authors: J
authors: Muttappallymyalil
keywords: Intrinsic component of resilience; medical students; number of friends; sharing feelings; socio-demographiccharacteristics
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