Academic Stress in Medical Students during 3 Different States: Holiday, Lecture, and Exams

I Made Muliarta^1*, Gede Wirata² and I Ketut Tunas³

¹Departement of Physiology, Medical Faculty, Udayana University, Indonesia.

²Departement of Anatomy, Medical Faculty, Udayana University, Indonesia

³Department of Health Information Management, Bali Internasional University, Indonesia.

Corresponding Author E-mail: made_muliarta@unud.ac.id

Abstract: Background: Stress is not only experienced by people who have worked, but it is not uncommon for students. Knowing the existence of stress and the severity of stress on someone is very important. Aim: The study aims to determine the difference in stress levels (academic stress) for students at various pre-clinic levels at Udayana University in 2020. Methods: An observational analytic design drives the samples from the 1st – 4th academic year students of Udayana University to take stress index and diagnosis questionnaires. The stressor condition was analyzed differently during holidays, lectures, or examinations. Results: The 384 participants aged 19.46 ± 1.28 years old consisted of 197 females and 187 males. Dominantly, the males had the highest number of severe ASI, RCS, QN, QL, and SR. The academic stress significantly differed in each batch (p<0.05), except for SR. The academic conditions appeared significant mean differences among ASI, QN, and QL. The significant conspicuous data appeared between the 3^rd and 4^th year for almost all stress variables, and also between lecture and exam time for both QN and QL. Conclusion: Different varieties of academic stress are shown early on in pre-clinical students, not only in the real clinical field. The low to severe grade at each stress variable was significant to be considered within the academic situation.

Keywords: Academic students; Stress questionnaire; Work stress

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