Survey on the Effect of Planed Education Programs on Stress Relief among Male High School Students Living in Dormitory: Short Report

Unavoidable stresses are quite often found in human life and at their tolerable levels are to beneficial to psychological activities. However, an inability to tolerate or control unusual and extreme levels of stress may appear as a psychological and/or physiological disorder. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence effect of planned education programs on alleviation of stress in male high school students. This interventional study was conducted on 70 male high school students living in dormitory in Servabad town in 2008. The data collecting tool was a disigned questionnaire (korton test) which distributed among the participants. Within two weeks, four training sessions as lecture or interactive meeting were conducted for all students. Data was then analysed by chi-squre, t-test, and Mann-whitney test using SPSS software. Before training courses, the stress rates due to environment or personality disorder were 68.8% and 71.4% respectively. After training courses, these values lowered to 37.1% and 44.3% respectively. Statistical analysis showed that there was a significant relationship between stress due to environment and personality disorders and also with the social class of students. The results of this study showed that requler training courses can reduce significantly the rate of stress in students.