Selected factors relating stress among senior dental public health students at Sirindhorn College of Public Health
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Background: Clinical dentistry and dental public health are highly stressful tasks and tend to cause high levels of stress in dental public health students.
Objectives: The purpose was to explore the level of stress and verify the demographic and clinical dental factors related to stress in senior dental public health students at Sirindhorn College of Public Health (SCPH).
Methods: This research was a cross-sectional descriptive study. One hundred and ninety-six students from SCPH Chonburi, Ubon Ratchathani, Phitsanulok and Trang completed self-report questionnaires which were composed of demographical data, Dental Environment Stress questionnaires (DES) and Suan Prung Stress Test (SPST). Data were analyzed with Chi-square tests and the Pearson correlation coefficient.
Results: The prevalence of students’ stress level was severe, high and moderate at 51.53%, 33.16% and 15.31%, respectively. For demographic factors, salary and chronic health problems was significantly related to stress (p<.05). Moreover, for dental factors, practicing factor and clinical environmental factor were also significantly related to stress (p<.05).
Conclusions: The results point out that salary, chronic health problems and clinic dental factors were statistically significantly associated with stress among senior dental public health students. The results of this study can provide information for SCPH and other dental schools for reducing stress-related factors in the curriculum. The findings from this study can be used to improve the dental public health education program in a way that can support students’ mental health.
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บทความที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์เป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของวิทยาลัยพยาบาลบรมราชชนนี จังหวัดนนทบุรี
ข้อความที่ปรากฏในบทความแต่ละเรื่องในวารสารวิชาการเล่มนี้เป็นความคิดเห็นส่วนตัวของผู้เขียนแต่ละท่านไม่เกี่ยวข้องกับวิทยาลัยพยาบาลบรมราชชนนี จังหวัดนนทบุรี และคณาจารย์ท่านอื่น ในวิทยาลัยฯ แต่อย่างใด ความรับผิดชอบองค์ประกอบทั้งหมดของบทความแต่ละเรื่องเป็นของผู้เขียนแต่ละท่าน หากมีความผิดพลาดใด ๆ ผู้เขียนแต่ละท่านจะรับผิดชอบบทความของตนเองแต่ผู้เดียว
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