تأثير الأزمة السورية في مستويات التوتر عند طلاب طب الأسنان في الجامعات السورية

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Introduction: The practice of dentistry has been long associated with high levels of occupational stress, which may have a negative effect on the students.

The current circumstances (Syrian crisis) is considered as a new variable which did not exist in the similar studies in other universities Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine sources of stress in dentistry environment in Syrian universities, and to compare it with the gender of students, and studying year and the type of the university (private or governmental university).

And to Study the effect of Syrian crisis as an additional cause for stress in dentistry environment, and determine the results and consequences of stress on students.

Methods and materials: This study is a descriptive cross sectional, the study covered 7 universities in Syria 4 of them were governmental and 3 were private universities.

An electronic questionnaire was used randomly to all students (between second and fifth year) in the selected universities.

This questionnaire contained 60 questions divided into 6 sections, basically build on the DES questionnaire, and modified to fit Syrian universities, culture and current circumstances.

Data were analysed using both descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (chi-square and kruskal wallis test).

Results: This study showed high levels of stress in all selected universities.

Fourth year students showed the highest level of stress (93.6%).

Female students had higher overall mean stress level compared with male students (male 48.8% - female 54.8%).

In general, there is a similarity in stress levels between government universities and private universities, with higher rates in government universities (53.4%) compared with private universities (49.1%).

A significant relationship was found between stress in dentistry and studying year (sig=0.00), whereas no significant relationship was found with the type of university (governmental or private) (sig=0.566).

A significant relationship was found between variables of stress and students gender.

Conclusion: according to the result, all undergraduated students in the facilities of dentistry in the Syrian universities are having a high level of stress.

Also the study showed that the Syrian crisis had an impact on stress level because of the new variables which played a mean role as a sources of stress.

In the end of the study we came up with recommendations that can be used as a direct and applicable solution to improve the dental facilities creating a lower stress learning environment in the Syrian universities