The first section covered sociodemographic factors such as age, gender, educational details, area of upbringing, parents’ education and parents’ occupation. The questionnaire was divided into three sections. It was developed with the help of published literature 1, 7 and finalised after a pilot study. The study was conducted between September 2011 and February 2012.Ī pre-tested, self-administered questionnaire was used as the study instrument. Students from all classes (grades) of each field were involved in the study. As engineering students outnumbered the medical profession students, to ensure comparability the mechanical division from the engineering college was randomly selected and included in the study. Overall, two dental colleges, two engineering colleges and one medical college participated in the study. To ensure anonymity, no questions about the names of students or institutions were included in the questionnaire. After obtaining ethical clearance, permission to conduct the study was sought from all medical, dental and engineering colleges within the study area. The estimated sample size was 1,200, and the sampling technique used was convenience sampling. The institutional ethical committee approved the study. The present study was undertaken in order to assess the prevalence of stress among students of medical, dental and engineering colleges, and the association of stress with various academic, social and health-related factors, in an urban area from the Sangli district of Western Maharashtra, India.Ī cross-sectional study was conducted in an urban area of the Sangli district of Western Maharashtra, India. However, there are very few studies on the prevalence of stress among engineering students, especially in India. Theoretically, the higher frequency of examinations should lead to a higher prevalence of stress among engineering students. Engineering students take half-yearly examinations, as compared to the annual examinations taken by medical and dental students. 3– 6 However there are few studies on this topic in India, especially on populations in smaller cities. Various studies around the globe have emphasised that students studying in medical and dental courses experience higher stress. Excessive stress results in an increased prevalence of psychological problems like depression, anxiety, substance abuse and suicide ideation.
The general characteristics of a person in distress are: being over-aroused tense or unable to relax touchy, easily upset or irritable easily startled or fidgety, and demonstrating intolerance of any interruption or delay. This kind of stress is well-known, and may lead to poor decision-making.
Some signals that this change has occurred are when tension begins to build, and there is no longer any fun in the challenge or there seems to be no relief or end in sight. Distress, or ‘bad stress’, is the point at which the good stress becomes too much to bear or cope with. It is when this stress is no longer tolerable and/or manageable that distress manifests. Eustress, literally translated as ‘good stress’, is a positive form of stress that motivates an individual to continue working.
1 It can manifest itself either as eustress or as distress. S tress can be defined as ‘ any challenge to homoeostasis’, or to the body’s internal sense of balance. Similarly, this study highlights the importance of creating positive environments at colleges and hostels to decrease stress among students. This research highlights the need to incorporate stress management education in the curriculum, as well as to develop mechanisms for decreasing stress among students in colleges.
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