Abstract:
Aim: To analyze the impact of marital status of post graduate medical trainees on research activities at The
Children Hospital, Lahore.
Methods: A quantitative cross sectional survey was carried out at The Children’s Hospital Lahore, Pakistan. All
(105) pediatrics medicine postgraduate trainees were recruited to fill a validated questionnaire, 90 of them
returned the completed proforma (response rate of 86%). Data was coded, entered and analyzed by SPSS
Results: More than half of the participants (64%) were females. Majority (71%) were between the age of 25-
33years (Mean age 28.22years±2.092), 63% Postgraduate trainees were unmarried (n=57/90). Social/Family
commitment issues were faced by 84.8% married postgraduate trainees (p-0.001) whereas lack of motivation was observed a huge hurdle in research activities of 85. 9% unmarried postgraduate trainees (p-0.02).
Conclusion: In the current study, unmarried postgraduate trainees are in majority and they experience lack of
motivation which decreases their scientific activities whereas social/family constraints are a major hurdle that
reduces the research work in married postgraduate trainees.
