International Journal of Healthcare Sciences ISSN 2348-5728 (Online) Vol. 9, Issue 1, pp: (33-41), Month: April 2021 - September 2021, Available at: www.researchpublish.com
A STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF STRESS AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS IN UNIVERSITAS UDAYANA Dharsnee Perimasivam1, I Made Muliarta2, Ketut Tirtayasa2, I Putu Adiartha Griadhi2 1
Programme of Medicine and Health, Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali 2
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali Email: dharsneesivam29@gmail.com
Abstract: Stress is a term that is generally utilized today however has gotten progressively hard to characterize. It shares, somewhat, basic implications in both the biological and psychological sciences. Stress can be considered as any factor, acting inside or remotely, that makes it hard to adjust and that initiates expanded exertion with respect to the piece of the individual to keep up a condition of balance both inside and with the outer condition. This research is a descriptive study with cross sectional method. The data is obtained from the medical students from selected semesters. Due to the pandemic situation, the questionnaire is given out to the medical students in the form of google form which follows the inclusion and exclusion criteria studying in the University of Udayana. It is concluded that the students who experience stress also experiences stress effects such as irregular sleeping patterns, diarrhoea, excessive body sweats, tiredness, restless, irritability, moody, difficulty in concentrating, decreased memory power, weight gain or weight loss, lack of appetite, mood swings, difficulty in breathing, feeling tensed and nervous. Hence, the prevalence of the medical students who undergo stress is 89 (74.2%). Keywords: effects, stress, medical students.
1. INTRODUCTION Stress has been named into the Health Epidemic of the 21st Century by the WHO and is assessed to cost American business up to $300 billion every year. The impact of stress on our enthusiastic and physical wellbeing can be wrecking. In late USA study, over half of people felt that stress contrarily sway work profitability. Somewhere in the range of 1983 and 2009, level of stress escalated by 10-30% among every statistic group in the USA.1 Spielberger says that the term stress is utilized to allude to a complex psychobiological process that comprises of three significant components. This procedure is started by a circumstance or upgrade that is possibly hurtful or risky stressor. On the off chance that a stressor is translated as a hazardous or compromising, an anxiety response will be evoked. In this manner, the meaning of pressure alludes to the accompanying fleeting occasions stressor. 2 Perception of Anxiety State Steinberg and Ritzman says that stress can be characterized as an under burden or over-burden of issue, vitality or data contribution to, or yield from, a living framework.3 Born in Vienna in 1907, Hans Hugo Bruno Selye, otherwise called the "father of stress," started his study about stress while still a medical student in 1926. He saw that patients with assortment of sickness had a considerable lot of the equivalent "non-specific" side effects that were a typical reaction to stressful stimuli experienced by the body. These clinical perceptions together with experiments on laboratory rats supported Selye's idea of the GAS (General Adaptation Syndrome) which drove Selye to state that ‘disease of adaptation’ is the result of prolonged exposure to stress. Despite the fact that the GAS theory was erroneous, it featured the way that stress effects affected the immune system just as on the adrenal organs. The GAS incorporates three distinct stages which are alarm reaction, stage of resistance, stage of exhaustioz.4
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