Abstract
This article sought to investigate the influence of social phobia symptoms (SP) on the self-perception regarding academic performance of medical students undergoing the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) method. This is a non-experimental, exploratory, cross-sectional, descriptive and quantitative analytical study. Regarding self-perception of academic performance, most students from both the SP (74%) and non-SP (86.4%) groups indicated their performance as excellent, very good or good. As for the willingness to drop out of the course many times or always, the percentage was 2.4% in students without FS, and 6.6% among those with FS. It was concluded that absenteeism related to anxiety symptoms was relatively more frequent in students with symptoms of FS. Furthermore, students with symptoms of SF tend to assess their performance as worse compared to students without SF, in addition to showing more difficulties in performing tasks.