The aim of this multicenter survey was to identify the sources of perceived psychological stress in the post-graduate students of Orthodontics and to analyze the influence of age, gender and the year of study on these stressors. 251 post-graduate orthodontic students from 24 dental schools across India anonymously completed a 61 item self-administered questionnaire. The relevant descriptive sta...

The concepts of learning and teaching appear somehow mixed although their use emphasizes who is at the center of the process. Bologna Declaration has put the stress on the “What students do?” paradigm, shifting the center of the process to the student. Such paradigm also supports life long learning objectives. The remote laboratory concept provides a tool to sustain this shift towards a student...

Our paper discusses the use and validity studies of the Alpha-Omega Scale of coping styles for life stress situations. The validation of the Alpha-Omega Scale on a sample of student and non-student population illustrated the ability of this scale to differentiate between known groups. The evidence indicated that the Alpha-Omega Scale exhibits diagnostic potential to differentiate between groups...

Background: Multiple healthcare agencies, such as American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2016) and American Nurses’ Association (2017), requested that end-of-life care be incorporated in undergraduate nursing education. Simulation offers nursing educators the opportunity to offer safe, hands-on end-of-life care education. However, a gap in the literature exists when examining the impact o...

International student migrants constitute the major population of world's leading universities and India is second largest source international students. Thus studying psychological wellbeing imperative. This study analyses effect acculturative stress perceived discrimination on migrant's life satisfaction. Students who have migrated from other parts to Chennai (N = 132), countries 153) are sam...

background & aims: psychological interventions may improve the quality of life in asthmatic patients through affecting the bio-psycho-social dimensions. this study is aimed to assess the efficacy of cognitive behavioral stress management (cbsm) group education on improvement of quality of life in asthmatic patients. method& materials: this was an experimental study using randomized pre-, post- ...

Stress constitutes a persistent wellbeing challenge to college students, impacting their personal, social, and academic life. However, violent events in campuses may aggravate student stress, due to the induced fear and trauma. In this paper, leveraging social media as a passive sensor of stress, we propose novel computational techniques to quantify and examine stress responses after gun violen...

background: it is hypothesized that the impacts of life events accumulate and can trigger and promote atherosclerosis in susceptible individuals. in the current study, the correlation of total life stressors during 1 year was investigated relative to coronary artery disease (cad). methods: the study population consisted of 148 males and 152 females aged 35–76 years. the subjects were classified...