Investigating First Year Education Students’ Stress Level

Stress in Romanian First Year Nursing Students

OBJECTIVE This study aims to analyze the stress of the students from the nursing department within the Medical Midwife and Nurse School from our University. SUBJECTS AND METHODS For this purpose a questionnaire, comprising the factors the students consider important for their academic preparation during the first year, was elaborated and applied to 100 students. RESULTS The result analysis ...

Level of Academic Stress and Its Effect on Sympathetic Parameters in First Year Medical Students

Background and objectives: Stress is the reaction of body with a change that requires a physical, mental or emotional tolerance or experience by way of an adjustment or response .Many studies on stress in medical education focus on the documentation of stress and information on the correlation of stress. [1] (2011). Most of the autonomic functions tests are based on evaluation of cardiovascular...

A longitudinal study of stress in first-year dental students.

This study examines the association of stress with performance and health in first-year dental students and changes in the amount and sources of stress over one year. Students at four U.S. dental schools completed the Dental Environment Stress (DES) scale, Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), stress rating, and demographic questions at the start of their first year of school (baseline), 11.7 weeks, an...

Sports injuries and illnesses in first-year physical education teacher education students

BACKGROUND/AIM We aimed to investigate the magnitude and characteristics of injuries and illnesses in Dutch physical education teacher education (PETE) students. METHODS During the first 21 weeks of the academic year, 245 first-year students registered their health problems online using the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre (OSTRC) Questionnaire on Health Problems. RESULTS A total of 276 i...

Investigating Differences in Personality Traits and Academic Needs Among Prepared and Underprepared First-Year College Students