Abstract

To assess and contrast how common stress is among first- and last-year students. To assess how first-year and fourth-year medical students handle stress. Methods: A comparative cross-sectional study was carried out on 200 participants (100 first-year students and 100 final-year students) after convenience sampling was used to get a signed informed consent. Result: 20.5%, or 19 of them, reported feeling stressed at some point. Out of the 107 students that were present at school the entire day, 81 (75.7%) had normal stress levels, 11 (10.3%) moderate stress, 13 (12.1%) severe stress, 2 (1.9%), and none had extremely high levels. Overall, stress was a factor for 26 of them (24.3%). Conclusion: Less maladaptive coping strategies were typically used by first-year students, and as they got closer to their final year, they started to use a mix of problem-focused and emotional coping strategies. Despite this, there was no statistically significant distinction between the two study groups in terms of depression, stress, or anxiety levels

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