期刊名称：International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education
电子版ISSN：1308-5581
出版年度：2022
卷号：14
期号：2
页码：1052-1064
DOI：10.9756/INT-JECSE/V14I2.087
语种：English
出版社：International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education
摘要：Background: The stress has touched all the professions and dental students are also among them. All the professionals like IT, Medical, Engineer have their own stress levels due to work pressure and other factors, there is always a need to possess their prevalence of anxiety, depression and alcohol abuse and also to understand their association with academic stress. The aim of this study is to explore the academic stress and alcohol abuse among clinical dental students. Materials & Methods: A questionnaire comprising 15 questions was created using an online Google form and was circulated among 105 clinical dental students in a private dental institute. This survey was conducted within a week in the months of Feb 2021. The results and observations were recorded in the form of pie charts and bar charts. Statistical significance is set at 5%. Results: In our study, 46.6% of the samples studied were found to be consuming alcohol and 53.4% have never consumed alcohol in their life and only very less (2.9%) of them consume alcohol regularly and 35.9% of people consumed alcohol on a monthly basis. Conclusion: Highly stressed out professionals have higher risk for developing depression and the harmful consumption of alcohol. The daily stress coping-drinking process is complex and It is clearly visible that there are both positive and negative affective pathways underlying the alcoholic drinking.
