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GLOSSOPHOBIA : A COMPARATIVE STUDY AMONG MEDICAL AND NON MEDICAL STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY OF LAHORE

Dr Noreena Aslam, Dr Shazia Hassan, Dr Mahwish Rasheed

Background: Glossophobia is speech anxiety due to the fear of public. It is a technical term given to a severe fear of public anxiety in the people who suffer from this anxiety get frozen in front of audience.They find their mouth dried up, their voice is weak and their body starts shivering.They may even go flushed and their heart starts thumping rapidly. Aims And Objectives: The purpose of our study is to determine the prevalence of Glossophobia among medical and non medical students and to compare their prevalences . For this purpose a comparative study was conducted from June 5th to August31st 2017 at University of Lahore, a convenient sample size of 150 students were selected the questionnaire was distributed among 75 medical students and 75 non medical students and SPSS was used to analyse it. Results: According to our results the prevalence of Glossophobia was 53% among medical students while on the same grounds prevalence among non medical students was found to be 43%. Conclusion: Thus, it was clear prevalence among medical students was higher than non medical students at University of Lahore.The social anxiety level was found higher among medical students than among non medical ones.

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