Hygiene of populated placesISSN: 2707-0441 eISSN: 2707-045X
Issue 64, 2014   -   Pages: 308-312
PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PECULIARITIES OF ECTS AFFECTION ON THE ORGANISM OF STUDENTS OF MEDICAL FACULTIES
V.I. Melnyk1, M.I. Mizyuk1, Z.B. Suslyk1
1 IVANO-FRANKIVSK NATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

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SUMMÀRY:
Purpose. Due to the integration into European educational community the purpose of the pre-sent research is to establish the peculiarities of influence of modern educational technology on the functional state of the students of medical institutions.
Methods. The anonymous questionnaire of first-sixth year’s students was conducted by Toron-to Alexithymia Scale. The blood pressure, heart rate, mental capacity, indexes of reaction on moving object and latent period visual and motional reaction were identified.
Results. Research results show some tendencies in psychological characteristic of students with cognitive and affective peculiarities. They are following: decreasing of difficulties in determina-tion (identification) and description of own feelings, reducing of difficulties in determination of differ-ences between psychological and physical sensations, increasing ability to symbolization, improve-ment of fantasy. The level of students’ alexithymia constantly decreases from the first to the sixth years of education.
During different forms of final control (traditional exam and final module control) it is found essential reduction of mental capacity among students, prolongation the latent period of visual and motional reaction, increasing of systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Increasing of heart rate was observed during State certification only.
It is necessary to continue investigations in the field of influence of ECTS as a new hygienic factor which can lead to adverse impact on the students’ morbidity and their health state.