Abstract
Background: Nowadays dentistry has been discussed in the most of the studies as a challenge and stressful fields. So the aim of this study was to evaluate the stress level of Dental clinic Students and its related factors in the two different periods of time with 5-years interval times. Materials and methods: This descriptive-analytic cross sectional study was done at the two different periods of times and their results were compared. A questionnaire was given to the all dental clinic students in the middle of the academic term for the 2005-2006 and 2010-2011 years. Data analysis was performed by using SPSS software and consisted of descriptive, chi-square, student t-test and Anova (using Tukey, post Hock comparison and linear regression) Results: Statistical population of this descriptive-analytic cross sectional study consisted of 124 clinical students included 74 females and 50 males (P=0.031)in the first step and 100 students included 61 females and 39 males (P=0.028)in second assess. Overall the main stress factors were qualification created by professors of the departments, oral medicine department, exams and grades, restorative department, orthodontic department, large volume of educational materials. Conclusion: Dentistry and specially it education is a stressful experience and we should try to create a calm environment without the additional stress.
Highlights
With the improvement of science in recent decades, education and the issues related to it, has had a special place among scientific topics
Six main stress factors in first evaluation were qualification created by professors of the departments, oral medicine department, exams and grades, restorative department, orthodontic department, large volume of educational materials and in second assess were oral medicine department, exams and grades, qualification created by professors of the department, large volume of educational materials, rules and procedures problematic school and orthodontic department. (Table 1)
2005-2006 1 Qualification created by a professor of the department
Summary
Background: With the improvement of science in recent decades, education and the issues related to it, has had a special place among scientific topics. Stress evaluation of Dental clinic Students and its related factors. The number of studies pay attention to psychological stress and stress-related health problems in the dental population, cause the dental to be as a rather stressful profession(Myers and Myers, 2004, Wilson et al, 1998).The high levels of stress could lead to burnout, with typical characteristics of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment in the long period of time(Rada and Johnson-Leong, 2004).dental students experience high levels of stress among training in their educational process, so it can be the cause of this occupational stress(Heath et al, 1999, Westerman et al, 1993, Newton et al, 1994, Rajab, 2001). The aim of this study was to evaluate the stress level of Dental clinic Students and its related factors in the two different periods of time with 5-years interval times. Conclusion: Dentistry and specially it education is a stressful experience and we should try to create a calm environment without the additional stress
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