CONCEPTIONS OF ANXIETY AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES IN RESEARCH WITH MEDICAL UNDERGRADUATES: A LITERATURE REVIEW.
Anxiety. Students. Medicine. Literature review as subject.
Anxiety has been present as a universal affection for the human condition since time immemorial. It is an increasingly frequent research theme in different groups, including medical undergraduates. Considering the relevance of the theme, the present study aimed to develop a literature review with the objective of characterizing the conceptions of anxiety present in research on the subject carried out with medical students and to identify intervention strategies and factors correlated with anxiety in these studies. A bibliographic survey was carried out on the Portal of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, capes journals, in the database of Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences - LILACS. Forty-two publications submitted to analysis from a bibliographic survey form and lexical analysis with the IRAMUTEQ software were selected. The results point to the preponderance of the psychiatric conception of anxiety based on the evaluation of signs and symptoms and on the bias of the pathology. The intervention strategies recommended in the articles that make up the sample, in general, are guided by the perspective of prevention, especially in the individual aspect.