Abstract
Introduction: High levels of stress and fatigue are associated with decreased academic success, well-being, and quality of life. The objective of this research was to quantify levels of perceived stress and fatigue among dental students to identify sources of and student coping mechanisms for perceived stress and fatigue and to identify the relationship between students' perceived stress and fatigue.
 Materials and Methods: A total of 102 responses were tabulated and analyzed using statistical analysis. This study was conducted to acknowledge the effect of stress and fatigability and the different ways it affects the health of dental students. The obtained data was collected and tabulated in Google sheets, analyzed statistically with descriptive statistics using SPSS software version 23.
 Results: Respondents have faced a feeling of fatigue in their working environment and some have experienced visual fatigue due to excessive screen time.
 Conclusion: The survey concludes that respondents have moderate awareness about the prevalence of fatigability in dental students.
Highlights
High levels of stress and fatigue are associated with decreased academic success, well-being, and quality of life
The literature on stress experienced by students in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been scarce, but a recent study (4) among chiropractic students indicated that students in their 4th year of the doctoral study reported the highest levels of stress
Our team has extensive knowledge and research experience that has translate into high quality publications [9]. [10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23],[24,25,26,27,28] This study aims to analyze the prevalence of fatigability among undergraduate dental students
Summary
High levels of stress and fatigue are associated with decreased academic success, well-being, and quality of life. It is important to identify the relationships between stress and fatigue to better understand their effects on health, attitudes, and performance [2]. Various studies have examined how students experience stress in professional health education. Medical, nursing, dental, pharmacy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy students have reported high levels of perceived stress [4].
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