Aditya Sharma

Department of Medicine, AIIMS Mangalagiri, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India

Publications
  • Research Article   
    Correlation of Anxiety with Thumb Length and Intelligent Quotient in Phase - I MBBS Students
    Author(s): Aditya Sharma, Sankaran PK*, Joy A Ghoshal, Vinoth Kumar Kalidoss and Yuvaraj M

    Introduction Anxiety is one of the common psychiatric disorder characterized by sad feeling and too much of anticipation. This anxietic character of a person not only leads to somatic changes in the body, but also to cognitive changes. So this study was done to correlate anxiety with thumb length and Intelligent Quotient (IQ) of the individuals. Materials and Methods The sample size was 99 MBBS students studying first and second year in AIIMS, Mangalagiri were taken into the study. Their thumb length, intelligent quotient and anxiety scores were calculated and the anxiety score was compared and correlated with thumb length and intelligent quotient. Results There was statistically significant correlation between anxiety score and thumb length. The study participants with high anxiety score had le.. View More»

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