Tangade Pradeep S, Mathur Anmol, Gupta Rahul, Chaudhary Shikha
Professor, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Kothiwal Dental College and Research Centre, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Dent Res J (Isfahan). 2011 Spring;8(2):95-101.
Evaluating the factors influence student perception, might allow programmatic changes designed to enhance students' psychosocial well-being and academic performance. The purpose of this study was to investigate perceived sources of stress on dental students and the role of parents in their career choice decisions.
In a cross-sectional design, a modified dental environmental stress questionnaire was administered to all dental students. The responses to the questionnaire were based on a four-point Lickert scale, not stressful to severely stressful. Means and standard deviations were determined for stress scores of individuals for each item and were used to compare the classes, genders, and choices. Student's t, one way ANOVA, and Newman Keuls multiple comparison post hoc tests were used to analysed the data at the significant level of P ≤ 0.05.
A total of 304 undergraduate students constituted the study population. Of the respondent, 60% were men and 40% were women. The final year students presented with higher stress scores. In gender comparison, men suffered more stress (62.9%) than women (60.1%). According to the career choice decision, students forced by parents had more perception of stress (69.0%) and the students staying in the hostel (62.7%) showed more perception of stress than day scholars (56.3%).
The study indicates that the congenial environment needs to be created for dental education and the parents also need to be counselled against forcing their children to join an educational programme i.e. not of their choice.
评估影响学生认知的因素，可能有助于做出旨在提高学生心理社会幸福感和学业成绩的课程改革。本研究的目的是调查牙科学生感知到的压力来源以及父母在他们职业选择决定中的作用。
采用横断面设计，对所有牙科学生进行一份经过修改的牙科环境压力问卷调查。问卷的回答基于四点李克特量表，从无压力到压力极大。确定每个项目中个体压力得分的均值和标准差，并用于比较班级、性别和选择情况。使用学生t检验、单因素方差分析和纽曼-基尔斯多重比较事后检验在P≤0.05的显著水平上分析数据。
共有304名本科生构成研究人群。在受访者中，60%为男性，40%为女性。最后一年的学生压力得分更高。在性别比较中，男性承受的压力（62.9%）比女性（60.1%）更大。根据职业选择决定，受父母逼迫的学生压力感知更强（69.0%），住在宿舍的学生（62.7%）比走读生（56.3%）压力感知更强。
该研究表明，需要为牙科教育创造适宜的环境，还需要向家长提供咨询，避免强迫孩子参加他们不选择的教育项目。
