scholarly journals Prevalence and Predictors of Perceived Stress: A Study among Medical Students of Ebonyi State University Abakaliki, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Edmund Ndudi Ossai ◽  
Alo Tobechukwu Alo ◽  
Basil Chukwubuikem Onwe ◽  
Divinewill Onyinyechi Okoro ◽  
Ngozi Eucharia Ezeagu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
High Stress ◽  
State University ◽  
Perceived Stress Scale ◽  
Stress Scale ◽  
Validated Questionnaire ◽  
The Mean

Aims: To determine the prevalence and predictors of perceived stress among medical students of Ebonyi State University Abakaliki, Nigeria. Study Design: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Ebonyi State University Abakaliki, Nigeria between February and March 2018. Methodology: All medical students of Ebonyi State University Abakaliki who have spent at least one full academic session in the university were included in the study. Information was obtained using a validated questionnaire which was self-administered. The Cohen Perceived Stress Scale, (PSS-10) was used to determine the prevalence of stress. Chi square test of statistical significance and multivariate analysis using binary logistic regression were used in the analysis and the level of statistical significance was determined by a p value of <0.05. Results: A total of 385 medical students participated in the study representing a response rate of 83.7%. The mean age of respondents was 23.2±3.4 years and majority, 64.2% were males. The mean perceived stress scale score was 19.8±5.9. The prevalence of high stress among the students was 51.9%. The fifth level class had the highest proportion of students who were stressed, (58.2%). Predictors of perceived high stress among the students included being a male student, (AOR= 0.6, 95% CI: 0.4- 0.9), being satisfied with medical training, (AOR= 0.6, 95% CI: 0.3- 0.8) and willingness to study Medicine again, (AOR= 0.5, 95% CI: 0.3- 0.8). Conclusion: The prevalence of high stress among the students was high. There is the need to appropriately manage stress in the medical school especially among the female students. Also, ensuring the satisfaction of medical students with their training though subjective will be of immense benefit. The inner resolve of the students to become medical doctors may be the most important factor in the pursuit of their career.

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STRESS AND COPING STRATEGIES AMONG UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL STUDENTS DURING PRE AND POST COVID-19 PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN.

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-32
Author(s):  
Neha Farheen Mushtaq ◽  
Shiva Kumar B K. ◽  
Vinay HR. ◽  
Bramaramba D Honnugudi
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
T Test ◽  
P Value ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Perceived Stress Scale ◽  
Stress Scale ◽  
The Mean ◽  
And Coping

Background: Medical students are facing huge challenge due to COVID-19 pandemic which has impacted their learning and has become vital stressor and affecting their psychological well-being. The objective of this study was to assess the perception of the stress among the undergraduate medical students and their coping strategies pre and post lockdown. Materials and Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 321 undergraduate medical students at Adichunchanagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, Mandya, Karnataka, India. This study was initiated after getting approval from the Institutional Ethical Committee. After obtaining consent the extent of the students stress was assessed using Perceived Stress Scale and Brief COPE was used to assess their coping strategies. Scores were analysed using paired t test in Microsoft excel/ SPSS software. Results: On paired 't' t test the mean difference in total score was 0.68 and the p value was 0.166 for scores of perceived stress scale, similarly the mean difference in scores of sub groups under coping strategies was 0.90 and 0.49 with 'p' value 0.173 and 0.498 respectively. Conclusion: Overall, there was not much of difference in scores of perceived stress scale and coping strategies before and after lockdown. Except for minor difference across age group and scores of specic coping strategies which was again not statistically signicant.

scholarly journals Psychological Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Healthcare Workers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Perceived Stress Scale Measures

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-388
Author(s):  
Nuha Alwaqdani ◽  
Hala A. Amer ◽  
Reem Alwaqdani ◽  
Fahad AlMansour ◽  
Hind A. Alzoman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Perceived Stress Scale ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Stress Scale ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Stress Levels

Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic has been stressful and of considerable concern among health care workers (HCWs). Being particularly at increased risk for exposure, HCWs worry about becoming infected as well as infecting co-workers, patients and family members. Such distress and panic may have destructive effects on individuals and may last long after the pandemic situation leading to depression or post-traumatic stress disorder. Therefore, the aim of the current study is to measure and investigate the prevalence of the factors affecting psychological stress during the COVID-19 pandemic among HCWs. Methods A self-administered online survey—including perceived stress scale (PSS) questions—was disseminated among HCWs in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (SA) between1st June and 30th July 2020. Results A total of 469 HCWs responded to the survey for a high response rate (93.8%). The PSS revealed that 15.8% of the respondents were suffering from high stress levels, 77.2% were suffering from moderate stress levels and 7% with low stress levels. Females and junior frontline staff reported more severe stress levels. Participation on the pandemic team shows significant impact on stress levels. Conclusion COVID-19 pandemic has increased stress levels among HCWs and affects their psychological wellbeing. Designing programs promoting HCWs mental health are crucial and emotional and psychological support strategies should be part of every public health crisis management plan.

scholarly journals Study on stress among software professionals in Madhapur area of Hyderabad, Telangana

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 4062
Author(s):  
Vimala Thomas ◽  
Y. Sai Krishna ◽  
K. J. Kishore Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Stress ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Perceived Stress Scale ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Stress Scale ◽  
Software Professionals ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Stress Work

Background: Stress is inescapable part of modern life, where workplace is becoming a volatile stress factory for most employees. Occupational stress/work stress/job stress can occur when there is discrepancy between the demands of the environment/workplace and an individual’s ability to carry out and complete these demands. There is paramount need to address the factors which are leading to stress at the earliest since they are increasing rapidly. The objectives of the study were to determine the levels of stress among software professionals and to determine its association with key socio-demographic variables and with working environment.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted among software professionals working in Madhapur area of Hyderabad using self-administered, pre-designed and pre-tested questionnaire after taking informed consent. Data was analyzed using MS Excel and Epi Info software.Results: Among the study participants, 71.5% were males and 28.5% were females. Mean age of the study participants was 34.04±7.52 years. Around 45.25% were having low stress, 33.5% moderate stress and only 21.25% had high stress according to perceived stress scale. Significant association was found between stress and age, type of family, marital status, gender and working hours per day.Conclusions: In the study, most of them were having low stress according to perceived stress scale. Females were having high stress compared to males. Software professionals have to be educated on factors which are leading to stress to prevent its adverse effects. 

scholarly journals A Study on Impact of Sensitive Intelligence and Perceived Stress

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 27-29
Author(s):  
Shishira Srinivasa ◽  
Vijayashree L.
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Women Students ◽  
Gender Difference ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
T Test ◽  
Intelligence Test ◽  
Emotional Understanding ◽  
Perceived Stress Scale ◽  
Stress Scale ◽  
The Mean

This paper explores the connection between emotional understanding (EI) and Perceived stress among 40 men and 40 women students of management stream in a college. There are two hypothesis which are proved in this article. The Chadha Emotional Intelligence Test (EIT) and Perceived Stress Scale developed by Cohen, Kamarck and Mermelstein were used for the analysis. Fixed investigation has shown that EI is negatively correlated to Stress. T-test on the mean results showed no gender difference for EI and perceived position stress among students in management. The analysis underlines the significance of Emotional Intelligence for students in management.

scholarly journals APAKAH PERILAKU DAN ASUPAN MAKAN BERLEBIH BERKAITAN DENGAN STRESS PADA MAHASISWA GIZI YANG MENYUSUN SKRIPSI?[Whether There is A Correlation Between Behavior and Excess Food Intake with the Stress in Nutrition Student Who Preparing for the Undergraduate Thesis?]

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Zuhairoh Naily Syarofi ◽  
Lailatul Muniroh
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Stress Level ◽  
Food Choice ◽  
Emotional Eating ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Daily Intake ◽  
Eating Behaviour ◽  
Perceived Stress Scale ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Stress Scale

College students have a high suceptibility to experience stress, especially those in last semester who write thesis. If stress not managed correctly, students could experienced negative behaviour like emotional over eating that could infl uence nutritional status. Those problems even occur in nutrition students who already had proper knowledge of health and nutrition practices. This research aims to analyze correlation between emotional over eating behaviour and intake with stress leves and scors of perceived stress scale among nutrition students who write thesis. This research was an observational analytic using cross sectional design. Subjects were 34 nutrition students taken by simple random sampling. Data were collected by perceived stress scale, eating appraisal due to emotion and stress (EADES), questionnaire, and 2 x 24hour food recall. Data were analyzed using Pearson and Spearman Correlation. Results showed correlation between stress level with emotional eating (p=0.008, r=-0.448), scores of perceived stress scale with energy intake (p=0.028, r=0.376), and fat intake (p=0.002, r=0.507). Conclusion of this study is high stress level can be a trigger for emotional eating as a coping strategy that leads to over intake in nutrition students who write thesis. Since food choice could be a problem when having stress, emotional eating can be balanced by perfomed a right food choice as daily intake needs.

Impact of perceived stress into mortality among the elderly population

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Imaeva ◽  
S Shalnova ◽  
A Kapustina ◽  
Y Balanova ◽  
V Shkolnikov
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Cox Regression ◽  
High Stress ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Perceived Stress Scale ◽  
Stress Scale ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Sum Scores ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cvd Mortality

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Introduction. According to the results of the recent studies, high levels of perceived stress were the potent risk factors for all-cause and cardiovascular mortality among the middle-aged population. However, there were few studies on the impact of this factor to mortality among the older males and females. Purpose. To investigate the association between perceived stress and all-cause and CVD mortality among the population of 75 years and older. Methods. This study was a part of the prospective cohort survey "Stress, aging and health." Data of 455 adults 75 years and older (287 males and 168 females) was used. We evaluated perceived stress Cohen"s Stress Scale. All items were scored on a 5-point scale, high scores indicated high levels of stress. Perceived Stress Scale sum scores were categorized into quintiles; we considered scores in the highest quintile (&gt;19) as abnormal. The mean follow-up was 12 years, 292 deaths occurred, including 200 from cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Association between perceived stress and all-cause and CVD mortality was evaluated by Cox regression model after adjustment for age. Results. High levels of stress were significantly associated with all-cause and CVD mortality among elderly males (HR = 1,48 95% CI: 1,09-1,99; p = 0,01; HR = 1,65; 95% CI: 1,15-2,36; p = 0,007) after adjusting for age. At the same time, among females aged 75 years and older no significant associations of perceived stress scale high scores with all-cause and CVD mortality were found (HR = 1,28; 95% CI: 0,84-1,96; p = 0,25; HR = 1,19; 95% CI: 0,73-1,95; p = 0,48). Conclusions. Perceived stress contributed significantly to higher mortality rates among males aged 75 years and older. While among females of the same age, no significant associations between high stress levels and all-cause and CVD mortality were found.

scholarly journals A Questionnaire Study to Investigate Stress among Future Pharmacists by Gender and Year Group

Pharmacy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lezley-Anne Hanna ◽  
Melissa Wilson ◽  
Maurice Hall ◽  
Alan Hanna
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Questionnaire Study ◽  
Stress Coping ◽  
Perceived Stress Scale ◽  
Stress Scale ◽  
Objective Structured Clinical Examinations ◽  
Course Material ◽  
Support Mechanisms ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The University

Background: This work aimed to ascertain future pharmacists’ stressors and stress-coping practices. Methods: Queens’ University Belfast Year 2 and 4 pharmacy students were invited to participate in an ethically approved, pre-piloted questionnaire study. Section A was the 10-item Perceived Stress Scale, Sections B and C related to stressors and stress-coping mechanisms, and Section D gathered non-identifiable demographic information. Data analysis largely took the form of descriptive statistics. Results: A response rate of 94.2% (213/226) was obtained. The mean Perceived Stress Scale score was 19.94 [standard deviation (SD) 6.37], with females having a higher mean score than males (20.55 SD 5.67 versus 18.16 SD 7.42). Common general stressors were career choice, employment opportunities, and finance. Common degree-specific stressors were particular assessments (objective structured clinical examinations and one-off written examinations) and the amount of course material. Popular stress-coping practices included getting emotional support from friends and family and using self-distractions. Conclusion: Stress appears to be an issue among these future pharmacists, and potentially more so for females. While the main stressors are unsurprising, this UK data enables comparisons to be made and helps inform support mechanisms within the university.

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