Gambaran Gangguan Kecemasan Pada Mahasiswa Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas “X” Angkatan 2007

Anxiety  is  an  uncomfortable  feeling  taking  form  as  an  uncertainty  of  something  that  has  not happened,  which  is  followed  by  physical  responses  of  the  body.  This  study  aims to describe the anxiety disorder level and the factors that triggered the anxiety of the 2007’s students of the Faculty of Medicine in “X” University. This research is descriptive observational, with the data collected from a survey and some interviews. Eighty students were interviewed using a Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (HARS) test  and  then  they  were  given  a  questionnaire.  The  result  of  the  HARS  test  shows  that  43.75%  of  the students had no anxiety, 27.5% had mild anxiety, 17.5% had moderate anxiety, 7.5% had severe anxiety and  3.75% had very severe anxiety. The answers to the questionnaire denote that parental factors were dominant in triggering the students’ anxiety: 96.25% of the students answered that their parents had high hope in them. Also, students’ perfection demand had become another factor (47.5%). In addition, 43.75% needed to depend on people stronger than them, 40% had less self confidence, and 51.25% always delayed important duties. In conclusion, the level of anxiety disorder in the 2007’s students of the Faculty of Medicine in “X” University was quite high,  whereas  the  factors  that  triggered  their  anxiety  were parental and individual. &nbsp