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Effect of Dental Environment Stressors and Coping Mechanisms on Perceived Stress in Postgraduate Dental Students

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of dental environment stressors and coping mechanisms on perceived stress in postgraduate dental students. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study enrolled 250 postgraduate students from four dental colleges. Modified dental environment stress (...

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Autores principales: Sikka, Neha, Juneja, Ruchi, Kumar, Varun, Bala, Shashi
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8645630/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34934283
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10005-2005
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Juneja, Ruchi
Kumar, Varun
Bala, Shashi
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description AIM AND OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of dental environment stressors and coping mechanisms on perceived stress in postgraduate dental students. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study enrolled 250 postgraduate students from four dental colleges. Modified dental environment stress (DES) questionnaire was used to study the dental environment-related stressors, perceived stress score (PSS) to measure the extent of stress perception, and brief COPE (BC) scale to measure the use of various coping strategies deployed to combat stress. An independent T-test was used to determine the associations of these measures with gender and marital status and one-way ANOVA for associations with year of study. Hierarchical regression was used to determine the effect of demographic factors, career-related psychological background, health-related habits, DES, and BC score on PSS. RESULTS: “Synopsis, thesis, library dissertation” and “lack of adequate infrastructure” were reported as the highest stressors by the postgraduate students. Only 4.8% of respondents perceived low stress, while 65.2% perceived high stress. A high correlation between the DES score and PSS was observed. Active coping, acceptance, and positive reframing were the most commonly utilized coping strategies. Planning and use of emotional support were the only coping strategies that were significant negative predictors of PSS. Problem-focused coping strategies had a positive, but non-significant correlation with PSS, while emotion-focused coping strategies had a significant negative correlation with PSS. CONCLUSION: Postgraduate dental environment causes a high-stress perception in students and reactive coping strategies have only a limited role in reducing stress perception. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Sikka N, Juneja R, Kumar V, et al. Effect of Dental Environment Stressors and Coping Mechanisms on Perceived Stress in Postgraduate Dental Students. Int J Clin Pediatr Dent 2021;14(5):681–688.
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spelling pubmed-86456302021-12-20 Effect of Dental Environment Stressors and Coping Mechanisms on Perceived Stress in Postgraduate Dental Students Sikka, Neha Juneja, Ruchi Kumar, Varun Bala, Shashi Int J Clin Pediatr Dent Research Article AIM AND OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of dental environment stressors and coping mechanisms on perceived stress in postgraduate dental students. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study enrolled 250 postgraduate students from four dental colleges. Modified dental environment stress (DES) questionnaire was used to study the dental environment-related stressors, perceived stress score (PSS) to measure the extent of stress perception, and brief COPE (BC) scale to measure the use of various coping strategies deployed to combat stress. An independent T-test was used to determine the associations of these measures with gender and marital status and one-way ANOVA for associations with year of study. Hierarchical regression was used to determine the effect of demographic factors, career-related psychological background, health-related habits, DES, and BC score on PSS. RESULTS: “Synopsis, thesis, library dissertation” and “lack of adequate infrastructure” were reported as the highest stressors by the postgraduate students. Only 4.8% of respondents perceived low stress, while 65.2% perceived high stress. A high correlation between the DES score and PSS was observed. Active coping, acceptance, and positive reframing were the most commonly utilized coping strategies. Planning and use of emotional support were the only coping strategies that were significant negative predictors of PSS. Problem-focused coping strategies had a positive, but non-significant correlation with PSS, while emotion-focused coping strategies had a significant negative correlation with PSS. CONCLUSION: Postgraduate dental environment causes a high-stress perception in students and reactive coping strategies have only a limited role in reducing stress perception. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Sikka N, Juneja R, Kumar V, et al. Effect of Dental Environment Stressors and Coping Mechanisms on Perceived Stress in Postgraduate Dental Students. Int J Clin Pediatr Dent 2021;14(5):681–688. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8645630/ /pubmed/34934283 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10005-2005 Text en Copyright © 2021; Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/© The Author(s). 2021 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and non-commercial reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8645630/
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