Psychological Stress and Stressors Among Clinical Dental Students at Shiraz School of Dentistry, Iran

The purpose of this study was to assess the level of psychological stress and the perceived stressors among the undergraduate clinical dental students of Shiraz School of Dentistry. This study was conducted during the second semester of the academic year 2018-2019 at Shiraz School of Dentistry, Shir...

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Published in:Advances in medical education and practice 2020-02, Vol.11, p.113-120
Main Authors: Jowkar, Zahra, Masoumi, Maryam, Mahmoodian, Hossein
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anxiety
College students
Dental schools
dental students
Dentistry
Depression (Mood disorder)
Education
Efficiency
Females
Gender
Learning
Mental depression
Original Research
Questionnaires
risk factor
shiraz school of dentistry
Stress
Stress (Psychology)
Students
Surveys
Teaching
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Summary:The purpose of this study was to assess the level of psychological stress and the perceived stressors among the undergraduate clinical dental students of Shiraz School of Dentistry. This study was conducted during the second semester of the academic year 2018-2019 at Shiraz School of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran. The study group consisted of 150 dental clinical students. The participants were surveyed via the validated Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21) and the Dental Environment Stress (DES) questionnaires. One-way ANOVA, post hoc Tukey's test, repeated measure ANOVA, Holm-Sidak's test, and -test were performed to analyze the data after the normality of the data was checked by Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. The P values of less than 0.05 were considered as statistically significant. No significant differences were observed among the dental students with different academic levels in terms of depression and anxiety scores (P=0.057 and 0.154, respectively). The lowest and highest stress scores were observed among the sixth- and fifth-year students, respectively (P values
ISSN:1179-7258
1179-7258
DOI:10.2147/amep.s236758