Murphy Robert J, Gray Sarah A, Sterling Gerald, Reeves Kathleen, DuCette Joseph
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University Hospital , 3223 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA.
J Dent Educ. 2009 Mar;73(3):328-37.
A study was conducted involving a group of 290 medical and dental students to directly compare perceived stress levels encountered during their education. A modified questionnaire based on Garbee et al.'s Dental Environmental Stress survey was provided to the students by either email or paper. The purpose of the investigation was to determine if the sources of stress reported by medical and dental students, both male and female, were due to common factors. A multivariate statistical analysis was also conducted to measure stress differences by year in school. Through factor analysis, the survey question responses were grouped into five causal categories: academic performance, faculty relations, patient and clinic responsibilities, personal life issues, and professional identity. The overall findings show that dental students had greater levels of stress than medical students in three of the five categories. The only category in which medical students demonstrated greater stress levels than dental students was in professional identity. Measures of comparative levels of stress between male and female students for either profession did not demonstrate any significant differences. Stress levels related to clinical work varied significantly between the type of professional student and his or her year in school.
一项研究对290名医学和牙科专业学生进行了调查，以直接比较他们在学习期间所感受到的压力水平。通过电子邮件或纸质方式向学生提供了一份基于加贝等人的牙科环境压力调查问卷修改后的问卷。该调查的目的是确定医学和牙科专业的男女学生所报告的压力来源是否归因于共同因素。还进行了多变量统计分析，以衡量不同年级学生的压力差异。通过因子分析，调查问卷的问题回答被归为五个因果类别：学业成绩、师生关系、患者及临床责任、个人生活问题和职业认同。总体研究结果表明，在五个类别中的三个类别中，牙科专业学生的压力水平高于医学专业学生。医学专业学生压力水平高于牙科专业学生的唯一类别是职业认同。两个专业的男女学生之间的压力比较水平没有显示出任何显著差异。与临床工作相关的压力水平因专业类型及其所在年级的不同而有显著差异。
