Citation

Campana H, Puscama L, Agüero E, López M, Casas S, Emiliano García G, Jonathan Gomes S. Prensa Med. Argent. 2009; 96(4): 251-253.

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(Copyright © 2009, Prensa Medica Argentina)

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Abstract

Panic attacks is an anxiety disorder that can be observed in medical students previously to the instance of the oral final evaluation. This stress reaction may develop fears that are focused in crisis of panic A strictly anonymous review of 50 students from the second year of a medical college randomly assigned, were studied. Each one of these students was invited to consign if in front to a final evaluation they experience some kind of anxiety or fears. The group was conformed by 22 men and 28 women. Panic (50% for women and 45% for men) was the most common disorder observed. Other manifestations were: preoccupations about death, suicide, to become insane and to do something uncontrolated. Considerations related to these observations are described in the article.

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