Prevalência dos sintomas de estresse em estudantes de medicina em Aracaju-SE

Abstract

Introduction: Most of society is exposed to stress loads. There are several stressors during graduation that contribute to the impairment of student's physical and mental health. Considering that it is a subject of few studies, this work aims to bring to the surface the need of more studies for appropriate interventions in this group occur, aiming to elaborate preventive treatments and actions for better management of stress. Objectives: To identify the presence of symptoms and the prevalence of stress phases in students of the UFS medical school; identify in which genus the symptoms are more common; identify the types of psychophysiological symptoms more and less prominent; identify the association between symptoms and genus; to compare stress levels in basic and clinical period. Materials and methods: A study carried out in Medicine course from November to February 2019 with a convenience sample of 157 students who signed the Term of Free and Informed Consent and responded to an Inventory of Lipp Stress Symptoms. Sample calculation for finite populations, with sampling error up to 5%, 95% confidence level for a population of 589 students. Data analyzed and program used: frequencies and percentages of qualitative variables; and the mean, median, standard deviation, minimum and maximum of the quantitative variables. The chi-square test and the student T-test were used. Results: From the studied universe, was noticed that 77 (49%) academics are women and 80 man (51%). In the results, the Resistance phase presented the highest mean of symptoms (4.8); the most prevalent symptom of phase I was: muscle tension (46.5%); the most prevalent symptom of phase II was: sensation of constant physical wear (61.8%); and the most prevalent symptom in phase III was: emotional hypersensitivity (59.2%). It was evidenced that only the number of symptoms presented in Phase II students showed statistically significant differences according to gender (p-value = 0.002) and that women presented on average (5.4) more symptoms than men (4,2).