ASSESSMENT OF STRESS IN UNDERGRADUATE DENTAL STUDENTS- A CROSS-SECTIONAL SURVEY
Keywords:
Dental education, students, perceived stress.Abstract
The stress which is experienced by students may adversely affect their academic achievement, personal well being and long-term professional capabilities. The dental profession is one of the most stressful health professions. The purpose of this study was to investigate perceived sources of stress on undergraduate dental students.Modified version of the Dental Environment Stress (DES) questionnaire which was used to assess perceived stress among undergraduate dental students. Means and standard deviations were determined for stress scores of individuals for each item. One way ANOVA,were used to analysed the data at the significant level of p- value of ≤ 0.05.The top stressor for all years was my colleagues in college and hostel are not friendly and I chose dentistry with my parents interest. For most of these items, second and final year students reported more stress than first and third year but the final year students shows maximum stress among all academic year
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