EvaluationofEnvironmentalStressamongStudentsofKashanDentalSchoolinAcademic

Studying dentistry is associated with high levels of stress. The aim of this study was to investigate the environmental stressexperienced by students of Kashan Dental School and influential factors during the academic year of 2020-2021.

In this study, all clinical students of Kashan Dental School (118 people) were studied via census method. The standard dental environment stress questionnaire (DES) with demographic characteristics was used to collect information.

In this study, 57.6% of students depicted highenvironmental stress. The highest frequency of environmental stress was observed in the field of patient treatment (75.4%) and clinical education (66.9%). Environmental stresswith regards to gender,place of residence and father's occupation was significant(p value < 0.05). Meanwhile, this variable was not statistically significant with regards tomarital status,average grade from last semester, meanage, mother's job and both parents' education (pvalue < 0.05).

Due to the high level of stress in dental students during their studies and also provided,the dangers of elevatedstress, it is necessary for responsible authorities topay more attention to this issue. In addition, female students, dormitory students and students whose father's are employed by the governmentare most in need of support