Assessment of Perceived Stress and Stress Predictors Among Dental Students: An Institutional- Based Study

Home > 2023, Vol. 10 No. 01 > Assessment of Perceived Stress and Stress Predictors Among Dental Students: An Institutional- Based Study

Published: October 26, 2023

Download PDF

Download XML | Download HTML

Authors

Ranjana Garg, Priyadarshini HR, Jing Yu Lee, Kevin Chee Pheng Neo, Mei Kei Leong and Joshua Kim Chwen Ting

DOI Number
https://doi.org/10.15415/jmrh.2023.101004

Keywords
Dental students, Perceived stress, Stress predictors, Dental education

Abstract

Background: Stress is one of the most prevalent psychological conditions globally. However, healthcare students are at an increased risk of psy-chological distress as compared to the normal population. Medical/Dental training is considered a stressful experience for students as they face a wide range of challenges related to their lengthy curriculums, patient care, and pursuit of academic excellence.

Purpose: To assess the prevalence of perceived stress levels and associ-ated risk factors among undergraduate dental students

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among 230 under-graduate dental students to assess their perceived stress using the Modi-fied version of the Dental Environment Stress questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS 22. Descriptive statistics and chi-square tests were used. P<0.05 was considered significant.

Results: Most dental students reported mild stress related to most of the academic and clinical components in the questionnaire. However, a higher percentage of pre-clinical students reported moderate and severe stress (37.5% & 14.1% respectively) as compared to clinical year students (6.8% and 1.5% respectively) with p>0.05. The major risk factors causing stress were competitiveness among peers, the pressure of the assessments, and the inability to balance the clinical and academic workload.

Conclusion: Undergraduate dental students were found to be under stress due to a range of factors. The faculties need to identify and alleviate such stress among students through support systems

References

Acharya, S. (2003). Factors affecting stress among Indian dental students. Journal of Dental Education, 67(10), 1140–1148.
Agius, A.-M., Gatt, G., Vento Zahra, E., Busuttil, A., Gainza-Cirauqui, M. L., Cortes, A. R. G., & Attard, N. J. (2021). Self-reported dental student stressors and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Dental Education, 85(2), 208–215. https://doi.org/10.1002/jdd.12409
Alhajj, M. N., Khader, Y., Murad, A. H., Celebic, A., Halboub, E., Márquez, J. R., Macizo, C. C., Khan, S., Basnet, B. B., Makzoumé, J. E., de Sousa-Neto, M. D., Camargo, R., Prasad, D. A., Faheemuddin, M., Mir, S., Elkholy, S., Abdullah, A. G., Ibrahim, A. A., Al-Anesi, M. S., & Al-Basmi, A. A. (2018). Perceived sources of stress amongst dental students: A multicountry study. European Journal of Dental Education : Official Journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe, 22(4), 258–271. https://doi.org/10.1111/eje.12350
Atta, I. S., & Almilaibary, A. (2022). The Prevalence of Stress Among Medical Students Studying an Integrative Curriculum During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Advances in Medical Education and Practice, 13, 35–45. https://doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S345330
Basudan, S., Binanzan, N., & Alhassan, A. (2017). Depression, anxiety and stress in dental students. International Journal of Medical Education, 8, 179–186. https://doi.org/10.5116/ijme.5910.b961
Garde, S., Adam, L. A., & Tawse-Smith, A. (2021). Perceived stressors of undergraduate dental students at an Australasian dental school. IIUM Journal of Orofacial and Health Sciences, 2(2), 41–53. https://doi.org/10.31436/ijohs.v2i2.99
Guse, J., Weegen, A. S., Heinen, I., & Bergelt, C. (2021). Mental burden and perception of the study situation among undergraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study and comparison of dental and medical students. BMJ Open, 11(12), e054728. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054728
Hakami, Z., Khanagar, S. B., Vishwanathaiah, S., Hakami, A., Bokhari, A. M., Jabali, A. H., Alasmari, D., & Aldrees, A. M. (2021). Psychological impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on dental students: A nationwide study. Journal of Dental Education, 85(4), 494–503. https://doi.org/10.1002/jdd.12470
Harris, M., Wilson, J. C., Hughes, S., Knevel, R. J. M., & Radford, D. R. (2018). Perceived stress and well-being in UK and Australian dental hygiene and dental therapy students. European Journal of Dental Education : Official Journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe, 22(3), e602–e611. https://doi.org/10.1038/bdjteam.2017.136
Jowkar, Z., Masoumi, M., & Mahmoodian, H. (2020). Psychological Stress and Stressors Among Clinical Dental Students at Shiraz School of Dentistry, Iran. Advances in Medical Education and Practice, 11, 113–120. https://doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S236758
Murphy, R. J., Gray, S. A., Sterling, G., Reeves, K., & DuCette, J. (2009). A comparative study of professional student stress. Journal of Dental Education, 73(3), 328–337.
Myint, K., See-Ziau, H., Husain, R., & Ismail, R. (2016). Dental Students’ Educational Environment and Perceived Stress: The University of Malaya Experience. The Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences : MJMS, 23(3), 49–56.
Pau, A. K. H., & Croucher, R. (2003). Emotional intelligence and perceived stress in dental undergraduates. Journal of Dental Education, 67(9), 1023–1028.
Saad Alshamrani, A., & A. Alshalan, T. (2021). Stress among Dental Students: Brief Review and Messages to All Related. Oral Health and Dental Studies, 2(1), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.31532/oralhealthdentstud.2.1.005
Samsudin, A. D., Jaafar, A., Idaham, N. I., & Mohamed Jali, & Yunos, M. H. (2021). The Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Psychological Wellness among Dental Students of a Malaysian Public University. Ulum Islamiyyah, 33, 87–97. https://doi.org/10.33102/uij.vol33no3.323
Santabarbara, J., Idoiaga, N., Ozamiz-Etxebarria, N., & Bueno-Notivol, J. (2021). Prevalence of Anxiety in Dental Students during the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Meta-Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(20). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010978
Schmitter, M., Liedl, M., Beck, J., & Rammelsberg, P. (2008). Chronic stress in medical and dental education. Medical Teacher, 30(1), 97–99. https://doi.org/10.1080/01421590701769571
Sherina, M. S., Rampal, L., & Kaneson, N. (2004). Psychological stress among undergraduate medical students. The Medical Journal of Malaysia, 59(2), 207–211.
Susan, F. (2011). Stress, health, and coping: An overview. In The Oxford handbook of stress, health, and coping. (pp. 3–11).
Verma, R., Balhara, Y. P. S., & Gupta, C. S. (2011). Gender differences in stress response: Role of developmental and biological determinants. Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 20(1), 4–10. https://doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.98407

How to Cite

Ranjana Garg, Priyadarshini HR, Jing Yu Lee, Kevin Chee Pheng Neo, Mei Kei Leong and Joshua Kim Chwen Ting. Assessment of Perceived Stress and Stress Predictors Among Dental Students: An Institutional- Based Study. J. Multidiscip. Res. Healthcare. 2023, 10, 25-31

Assessment of Perceived Stress and Stress Predictors Among Dental Students: An Institutional- Based Study

Current Issue

Periodicity	Biannually
Issue-1	October
Issue-2	April
ISSN Print	2393-8536
ISSN Online	2393-8544
RNI No.	CHAENG/2014/57978

OA Policy

Publisher's policy of the journal at Sherpa UK for the submitted, accepted, and published articles. Click OAPolicy

Plan-S Compliance

To check compliance, one has to use the Journal Check Tool (JCT). This tool provided by cOAlition S (European funders) for the researchers (fundee) to check the compliance with the journal.

Recommend journal to your library

You can recommend the journal being a researcher or faculty member to your library. We will post a copy of the Journal to your library on your behalf at free of cost.
Click here: Recommend Journal

Preprint Arxiv Submission

The authors are encouraged to submit the author’s copy (preprint) to appropriate preprint archives e.g. https://arxiv.org and/or on https://indiarxiv.org or institutional repositories (e.g., D Space) before paper acceptance by the editor of Journal. After publications of the paper author(s) should mention the citation information, title and abstract along with DOI number of the publication carefully on the required page of the depository(ies).

Contact:

Phone: +91-172-2741000, +91-172-4691800
Email : editor.jmrh@chitkara.edu.in

Abstract and Indexing

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Articles in Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Healthcare by Chitkara University Publications are Open Access articles that are published with licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- CC-BY 4.0 International License. Based on a work at https://jmrh.chitkara.edu.in/. This license permits one to use, remix, tweak and reproduction in any medium, even commercially provided one give credit for the original creation.

View Legal Code of the above-mentioned license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

View Licence Deed here https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/