Avaliação do estresse percebido por estudantes do internato de medicina na Universidade Federal de Sergipe

Abstract

Context: During the graduation, medical students are continually subjected to psychosocial stressors, because they need to withstand overload situations such as academic, billing and tense situations to maintain good grades in various disciplines, enabling up to complex medical procedures and also exercise the process of learning with the patient. A student's mental health can be shaken during the course of the graduation, and may even influence on their academic performances, thus compromising the formation of empathy and humanization that professional future. Objectives: Assess levels of perceived stress and its possible clinical, social and demographic correlations by the student of medicine of the last period. Methods: Cross-sectional study, where students enrolled in the 12th period of medical school campus of the Federal University of Sergipe, in Aracaju. Stress was measured by the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-14). Results: The result of the evaluation through the PSS-14 showed a mean score of 27.72 (95% CI 25.61 to 29.83). The average age was 25.8 years (95% CI: 25.3 to 26.2 years). There was a weak correlation between the score of perceived stress and Current Age, the overall average and the number of vestibular who paid to get into medical school. However, the relationship with age he entered the course showed a moderate positive correlation (0.359). Low scores were found in those who reported household income above 20 minimum wages (p = 0.250) and higher among those who said they were evangelicals and Catholics and reduced in agnostics. (p = 0.356). Conclusions: There was correlation between perceived stress and the age at which the student entered the medical course, and possess religious Catholic or Evangelical. We found low scores for students with a family income greater than 20 minimum wages and agnostics. Further research will be interesting to determine more accurate correlation between religiosity and perceived stress in medical students.