JIDAM
"An Official Journal of IDA - Madras
Branch" ©2019.
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BACKGROUND: Hobbies and Extracurricular Activities (EA) provide an
outlet for stress. The Medical and Dental field is a long emotionally taxing
journey. Stress progressively develops over the course of Medical/Dental
education. It is challenging to strike a balance between leading a successful
medical profession as well as pursuing their favored Hobbies/EA’s.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.Evaluate the number of dental and medical
practitioners participating in hobbies and extracurricular activities. 2) To
correlate the involvement of extracurricular activity in terms of progress,
joyfulness and level of achievement. 3) To suggest a schedule to continue
long lost hobbies and extracurricular activities.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out
amongst the dental and medical practitioners in Chennai between March
2017 and May 2017. A total of 120 self-administered questionnaires were
distributed amongst dentists working at 2 private colleges and as dental and
medical practitioners in private clinics. The questionnaire contained
demographic details along with a set of 14 questions which included 6 openended questions and 8 closed-ended questions.
RESULTS: Upon evaluating the number of people involving in
extracurricular activities, it was found significant that doctors working more
than 5 hours could not continue their activities regularly and those whom
worked less than 5 hours a day were able to involve regularly. Around 13
people did not answer those two questionnaires. The correlation coefficient
was positively correlated 0.012 which showed a weak positive correlation
proving that the dentists who balanced between profession and
extracurricular activities outperform the people who did not take part in
extracurricular activities. This study showed that working less or more has a
significant impact the extracurricular activities to a negative correlation. (-
0.047).
CONCLUSION: Involvement by the dentists and medical practitioners in
hobbies and extracurricular activities and it was found significant that,
• Majority of them who engaged in activities were continuing them
regularly.
• They also wished to reschedule their time to participate effectively in
hobbies and activities.
Hobbies, Extracurricular activities, Stress, Dental professional / medical professional.
JIDAM/Volume: 7/Issue: 3/Pages 85 - 90 / July- Sept 2020