Yteke Elte, Inga Wolframm, Ilse van Grevenhof, Mirjam Nielen, René van Weeren
Survey-based investigation of sports and leisure horse owners' approaches to, and expectations of, equine veterinary care
The Veterinary record
medical students experience anxiety higher rates general public many uniquely affected additional test anxiety throughout medical education although test anxiety studied decades little evidence published suggesting interventions improve examination performance medical education therefore set review current literature elucidate efforts far establish trends research databases searched included pubmed embase psychinfo eric scopus cinahl english language articles published 2010 2021 loaded reference manager screen duplicate articles fulltext screen data extraction phase reference lists also inspected identify additional articles inclusion study 883 studies identified 860 excluded resulting 22 studies extraction analysis firstyear n 15 secondyear n 12 students primarily tested less 10 included third fourthyear students selfhelp wellness interventions employed though interventions ranged dog therapy deep breathing techniques fish oil supplementation test anxiety evaluated using selfreport questionnaires westside test anxiety scale beck anxiety inventory statetrait anxiety inventory none studies reported improved examination scores review identifies variety measurement tools interventions attempting mitigate test anxiety far improving examination performance none interventions reported successful research addressing test anxiety results improved medical student academic performance conducted also use established assessment tools