Comparison between medical and non-medical college students on the level of stress
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Surgery - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 2
Abstract
Stress is anunpleasant emotional state which caused by both internal and external factors. Stress affects people in different ways and levels. College students, especially those who joined after schooling faces many issues to cope up their new college environment. In this transition period they face financial, emotional and academic difficulties. This study is thus dedicated to measure the level of stress and different sources of stress such as (College; Money; Relationships; Body, mindand feelings) among the newly joined medical (MBBS and BDS) and non-medical (Arts and science) college students in a selected deemed university at Chennai. A sample of 60 students (30 medical and 30 nonmedical) between the age of 17 to 19 years were taken up for the study by using a purposive sampling technique. The adapted stress questionnaire by Barreca and Hepler (2000) is used to collect the data and the results were statistically analyzed. The results revealed that the medical students are more stressed when compared to the non-medical students and for both the population, stress level is found to be high on body, mindand feelings
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Sagayaraj K, N Sivarajan, C N Ram Gopal
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