Assessment of level of stress among post-graduate trainees working in tertiary care hospital in a district of Assam

Alpana Priya Rabha; Uddipta Bhaskar Das; Upama Deka

doi:10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20240282

Authors

Alpana Priya Rabha Department of Community Medicine, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Medical College, Barpeta, Assam, India
Uddipta Bhaskar Das Department of Community Medicine, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Medical College, Barpeta, Assam, India
Upama Deka Department of Community Medicine, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Medical College, Barpeta, Assam, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20240282

Keywords:

Medical education, Post graduate students, Stress

Abstract

Background: Medical education is itself very vast, stressful and challenging. Stressful condition can lead to many psychological responses like anxiety, depression, irritability, restlessness, sleep disturbances etc. The postgraduate students are at risk of developing stress due to their professional duties, workloads, peer pressure, academic activities and so on. Thus, the study has been initiated to find out the level of stress and its related factors among the post graduate students in a Tertiary care hospital of Assam.

Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted on all the postgraduate students in a tertiary care hospital during March’23 to June’23. By convenience sampling technique around 108 post graduate students were participated in the study. The level of stress had been assessed by perceived stress scale (PSS-10), stress related symptoms from self reporting questionnaire (SRQ-20), and sleep quality by insomnia severity index scale.

Results: The study found out that 98 (90.74%) had moderate, 6 (5.55%) high and 4(3.74%) low level of stress. The stress was associated with marital status, gender, residence and clinical and non-clinical departments. Out of 75 male (69.45%), 72 (96% ) moderate, 2 (2.6% ) high and 1 (1.3%) low level of stress and 33 (30.55%) female participants, 81.8% had moderate, 4 (1212%) high, and 2 (6.06%) had low level of stress.

Conclusions: The study had concluded that stress was found to be prevalent among the study participants.

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