The Relationship between AAS (Addiction Admission Scale) and APS (Addiction Potential Scale) with Timely Graduation of UPH Medical Faculty Students

Citation : Pardamean E, Sungono V. The Relationship between AAS (Addiction Admission Scale) and APS (Addiction Potential Scale) with Timely Graduation of UPH Medical Faculty Students Medicinus. 2019 February; 7(6):170–173


Introduction
Addiction is a condition of psychological addiction that is quite often experienced in human life, especially when experiencing a feeling of tension and pressure. The result of this addiction is very dangerous, because it can damage neurotransmitters in the brain that cause physical fatigue and changes in a person's behavior 1,2,3 . When this happens to students, it will greatly disrupt the timeliness of each student's study period. The results of a research conducted at the University of Bangladesh with 160 samples of students aged between 15-25 years found that 38.75% of addiction was due to the influence of friends and 31.88% of addiction because they wanted to try something new. 4 On this basis, a study was conducted on UPH medical faculty students. The questionnaire used was MMPI-2 by assessing AAS (Addiction Admission Scale) and APS (Addiction Potential Scale) 5.6.

Materials and Methods
This study uses a cross-sectional design by analyzing MMPI-2 test results with timely graduation. The respondents of this study were co-ass students who were undergoing Psychiatric Medicine at the Dharmawangsa Mental Hospital who had carried out the MMPI-2 test. The inclusion criteria were students of the Faculty of Medicine who ran co-ass program at the Dharmawangsa Mental Hospital and took the MMPI-2 test.
The invalid MMPI-2 test results are the test results which are stated to be inaccurate and inconsistent so they cannot be interpreted and must be excluded from this study. Graduation is on time, if the duration of medical study is ≤ 5.5 years and it is said that graduation is not on time, if the length of study is> 5.5 years.

Statistical Analysis
Data analysis was performed using Stata IC version 16 using a t-test to see the difference in the mean APS and AAS scale for timely graduation. Spearman correlation analysis is used to see the correlation between APS and AAS. To see the relationship of APS, AAS to timely graduation uses a logistic regression test with statistical significance indicators of p values below 0.05 and Odd ratio values and 95% confidence intervals.

Results and Discussions
From this descriptive survey, there were 81 respondents of the study consisted of Pelita Harapan University Faculty of Medicine students. This can be seen in Table 1.
The respondents of this study consisted of 67 percent women and 33 percent men. As many as 5 percent of respondents were married, and most of them, when they took the MMPI test, the status of respondents was still a student (72 percent). The consistency of this test is quite high at 99 percent, and the results of the test accuracy of 76 percent are considered quite accurate, and 76 percent are quite reliable. From a number of research respondents, it appears that most 79 percent of students graduate on time, and as many as 21 percent does not graduate on time.  The box plot graph above does not show a significant difference in mean APS (addiction potential scale) in the group that passed on time and the group that was not on time.
Graph 2. Box Plot between AAS (Addiction Admission Scale) against the timeliness of graduation From the box plot graph above, the mean difference that is significantly different in the AAS (Addiction admission scale) in the group that passes on time has a lower score compared to the group that is not on time. There is a significant relationship between addiction admission scale (AAS) to timely graduation. It means that the addicted student will finish their medical study longer than they are supposed to.
There is no relationship between addiction potential scale (APS) to timely graduation.