Evaluation of Perceived Stress and Its Association with Dental Caries in 290 Undergraduate Medical Students.

IF 3.1 4区 医学 Q1 Medicine Medical Science Monitor Pub Date : 2024-12-17 DOI:10.12659/MSM.946528
Saeed Awod Bin Hassan, Lakshya Kumar, Aditi Verma, Prakhar Mittal, Akanksha Yadav, Ahmed Abdullah Al Malwi, Abdulelah Sameer Sindi, Syed M Yassin, Shabina Shafi, Mohamed S M Morsy, Khurshid Mattoo
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BACKGROUND Stress-induced health disorders are related to an unhealthy lifestyle. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of perceived stress among medical students and to correlate their respective stress levels with the caries index: decayed, missing, filled surfaces (DMFS). MATERIAL AND METHODS This study included 290 undergraduate medical students (140 men, 150 women) from 4 different grades. Demographic characteristics and perceived stress scale (PSS) were measured using a pre-validated scaled questionnaire. The DMFS for each individual was measured intraorally. Continuous variables were expressed as means, and categorical variables as frequencies. Using Pearson correlation, the types and strengths of the relationships between stress levels and DMFS scores were determined (positive, negative, linear, nonlinear). All differences were considered significant at a P value of less than 0.01 (P<0.01). RESULTS A higher percentage of participants had moderate stress (73.8%), with higher PSS scores among female participants (m=21.52) than male participants (m=20.43). Participants with higher stress scores (27 to 40) had very high DMFS scores (4.5 to 6.5). Age had a negative association with stress (r=-0.072, P=0.219) and DMFS (r=-0.023, P=0.695) scores. No significant differences in scores indicated no significant linear link between the variables. A significantly positive linear correlation was observed between stress and DMFS scores (r=0.41, P=0.000), although the correlation was weak. CONCLUSIONS Undergraduate medical students perceive stress during their training. Level of stress was associated with severity of dental caries.

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背景 压力导致的健康紊乱与不健康的生活方式有关。本研究旨在调查医学生感知压力的普遍程度,并将他们各自的压力水平与龋齿指数:龋坏、缺失、填充表面(DMFS)相关联。材料与方法 本研究包括来自 4 个不同年级的 290 名本科医学生(140 名男生,150 名女生)。研究人员使用预先验证过的量表式问卷测量了人口统计学特征和感知压力量表(PSS)。每个人的 DMFS 均在口腔内测量。连续变量以平均值表示,分类变量以频率表示。采用皮尔逊相关法确定压力水平与 DMFS 分数之间的关系类型和强度(正、负、线性、非线性)。当 P 值小于 0.01 时(P
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期刊介绍: Medical Science Monitor (MSM) established in 1995 is an international, peer-reviewed scientific journal which publishes original articles in Clinical Medicine and related disciplines such as Epidemiology and Population Studies, Product Investigations, Development of Laboratory Techniques :: Diagnostics and Medical Technology which enable presentation of research or review works in overlapping areas of medicine and technology such us (but not limited to): medical diagnostics, medical imaging systems, computer simulation of health and disease processes, new medical devices, etc. Reviews and Special Reports - papers may be accepted on the basis that they provide a systematic, critical and up-to-date overview of literature pertaining to research or clinical topics. Meta-analyses are considered as reviews. A special attention will be paid to a teaching value of a review paper. Medical Science Monitor is internationally indexed in Thomson-Reuters Web of Science, Journals Citation Report (JCR), Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI), Index Medicus MEDLINE, PubMed, PMC, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Chemical Abstracts CAS and Index Copernicus.
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