DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON STRESS STUDENTS OF MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF MANIZALES
Estudio descriptivo sobre estrés en estudiantes de medicina de la universidad de Manizales
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DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON STRESS STUDENTS OF MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF MANIZALES. (2006). Archivos De Medicina , 11, 37-45. https://doi.org/10.30554/archmed.11.0.1535.2005
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DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON STRESS STUDENTS OF MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF MANIZALES. (2006). Archivos De Medicina , 11, 37-45. https://doi.org/10.30554/archmed.11.0.1535.2005
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complete, since a combination of factors produces a high frequency of psychological and physical uneasiness inside the university population. The purpose of this work was
the study of the stress frequency in the students of Medicine of the Universidad de Manizales.
Materials and Methods: A retrospective descriptive study, in the first academic period of the year 2004, was carried out. A sampling for convenience was made, and the following surveys were applied: measuring instrument of techniques to confront the stress, Stress scale of professional life, Events Scale of Stress Producers (Holmes y Rahe) and Type A personality Test .
Results: The obtained results show that the average population has a moderate stress level, the female students present a moderate stress level in contrast with the male students, in which a low stress level was found. Besides, in average, the students
presented an inadecuate form of stress confrontation. When analyzing the stress level in lineal regression as function of the other three variables (stress producers, type A personality, and stress confrontation) a determination coefficient of 0,328 was obtained indicating a marked lineal tendency.
Conclusions: When analyzing the stress confrontation in the students an inadequate confrontation was obtained, possibly because the adolescence stage risk behaviours, such as substances abuse, including cigarettes and alcohol, make appearance which constitute an easy confrontation styles as stress appears.
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