Assessment of stress' level among students and its coping strategies

Abstract EN

A descriptive-analytical study which used an assessment tool on probability sample of 120 students from schools of (Intermediate, Secondary, Institute, College) to determine stress' level among students, its sources and coping strategies for health promotion of students and school health services .

The period of the study from 2 / 10 / 2011 to 2 / 12 / 2012 in Baghdad City. A questionnaire was designed throughout review of literature of the study which consisted of four parts, First part related to demographic data of the sample (4 items). Second part related to sources of stress (8 items), Third part related to assessment of stress' level (10 items) and Fourth related to coping strategies to relief stress (16 items).

Validity of the questionnaire was determined through the panel of 4 experts in different specialties.

Data was collected by personal interview with the researcher, and analyzed by application of statistical of frequencies, percentages and chi-square. The results of the study revealed that the high scores were counted among males who ages of 20-25 years, while the most of the their sources of stress was reported as a family problems and school problems, then, there was no significant association between sources of stress among students and their gender and ages.

Also, more than half of the sample were selected of the problems–solving approaches, exercises and reading holly book as a coping strategies for dealing with stress. Based on these results, the researcher recommended that the health education programs should be conducted on how treated with stress and selected of the effective coping strategies for prevent mistake approaches when dealing with stress, as well as problems solving approaches, techniques of auscultation and teaching staff of schools about how provide social support to their students when stressful event occur.