Stress-induced immune-related diseases and health outcomes of pharmacy students: A pilot study

Assaf, Areej M.

doi:10.1016/j.jsps.2012.02.006

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“…Pharmacy students demonstrate comparatively higher prevalence of stress than students of the other health professions which adversely affects their health and general quality of life [10]. Stress negatively affects the mental health of these students resulting in the development of stress-related disorders, low quality of life and poor academic performance [11–15].…”

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Perceived stress and quality of life of pharmacy students in University of Ghana

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Background: Stress among pharmacy students could greatly affect their learning activities and general well-being. It is therefore necessary to investigate how stress relates with the quality of life of students to maintain and/or improve their personal satisfaction and academic performance. A school-based longitudinal study was used to investigate the relationship between stress and quality of life of undergraduate pharmacy students. The 10-item perceived stress scale and the shorter version of the WHO quality of life scale were administered to the same participants at two time points i.e. Time 1 (4 weeks into the semester) and Time 2 (8 weeks afterwards). The correlations and differences between the study variables were tested using the Pearson's coefficient and independent sample t test. Results:The mean stress scores were higher at Time 2 compared to Time 1 for the first and second years. However, there was no significant difference in stress for different year groups-Time 1 [F (3) = 0.410; p = 0.746] and Time 2 [F(3) = 0.909; p = 0.439]. Female students had higher stress scores at Time 2 compared to male students. The main stressors identified in the study were; large volume of material to be studied (88.2%), laboratory report writing (78.2%), constant pressure to maintain good grades (66.4%) and the lack of leisure time (46.4%). Even though most students employed positive stress management strategies such as time management (68.2%), other students resorted to emotional eating (9.1%) and alcohol/substance use (1.8%). At Time 2, perceived stress scores were significantly negatively correlated with social relationship (r = −0.40, p ≤ 0.0001), environmental health (r = −0.37, p ≤ 0.0001), physical health (r = −0.49, p ≤ 0.0001) and psychological health (r = −0.51, p ≤ 0.0001). Conclusion:The study reported significant correlations between stress and various domains of quality of life of undergraduate pharmacy students. It is thus necessary to institute some personal and institutional strategies to ameliorate the effect of stress on the quality of life of pharmacy students while encouraging the use of positive stress management strategies.

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Psychological Stress and Skin Symptoms in College Students: Results of a Cross-sectional Web-based Questionnaire Study

Schut¹,

Mollanazar²,

Sethi³

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Acta Derm Venerol

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College can be a cause of increased psychological stress, especially given the complex social, academic, and financial pressures faced by today's students (1,2). The association between psychological stress and the manifestation or exacerbation of different skin diseases is well established (3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8). Previous studies that demonstrated an association between stress and skin symptoms focused their analyses on a single skin disease. Therefore, this questionnaire-based cross-sectional study aimed to assess the relationship between perceived psychological stress and the prevalence of various skin symptoms in a large, randomly selected sample of undergraduate students. MATERIALS AND METHODSThe investigation was conducted at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the fall semester of 2014 by the Department of Dermatology and the Temple Itch Center. Five thousand undergraduate students aged 18-30 years were randomly selected and e-mailed an invitation to participate in a web-based survey. Electronic informed consent was obtained from all participants. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at Temple University School of Medicine.We utilized Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) to construct, host, implement, and collect the survey and subsequent data.To assess stress levels, we used the validated Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ; 9) a 30-item questionnaire that measures self-reported psychological stress (9). The raw scores were combined to produce a PSQ index that varied from 0 to 1, representing lowest and highest levels of perceived stress, respectively. To assess skin complaints, we utilized a modified version of the Self-Reported Skin Questionnaire (SRSQ; 10). StatisticsThe statistical analyses were done using SPSS 22. The group was divided into low stress (LS), moderate stress (MS) and high stress (HS) students by determination of the 25 th and 75 th percentile of the PSQ index. Students scoring ≤ 25 th percentile (PSQ index ≤ 0.389) were regarded as lowly stressed, students scoring ≥ 75 th percentile (PSQ index ≥ 0.622) were regarded as highly stressed. All other students fell in the category of moderately stressed. Moreover, the answers concerning the (skin-) symptoms were dichotomized in such a way that the answer "no complaints" was compared with the other 3 answers ("a little", "quite a lot" and "very much"). Thus, we only distinguished whether the symptom occurred in the student or not. This dichotomization was done to allow the computation of odds ratios (OR). To compare the low and high stressed students regarding socio-demographic variables, χ 2 -tests as well as t-tests for independent groups were computed. Subsequently, OR and 95% confidence intervals were calculated to conclude as to whether the low stress group had a lower probability of having (skin-) complaints than the high stress group. Due to the fact that sex was not equally distributed in the groups, sex and stress severity were used as a covariate in the binary logistic regressions which were ...

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“…Although various factors may impact this process, the role of stress (acute and chronic) is a crucial factor that may impact a student's performance. For example, emotional and psychological stress linked to the exam setting ("exam stress") results in increased pressure (12) and can trigger pathophysiological responses, such as increased cortisol levels (1) together with perturbations of the immune system (1,10). For this study, we hypothesized that students' exposure to a stressful condition (simulating exam stress) will influence their cognition and learning behavior and thereby lead to lower test scores vs. nonstressed compatriots.…”

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No stress—better results?

Dorsemans

Essop

Bourdon

2018

Advances in Physiology Education

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Stress-induced immune-related diseases and health outcomes of pharmacy students: A pilot study

Cited by 14 publications

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Perceived stress and quality of life of pharmacy students in University of Ghana

Perceived stress and quality of life of pharmacy students in University of Ghana

Psychological Stress and Skin Symptoms in College Students: Results of a Cross-sectional Web-based Questionnaire Study

No stress—better results?

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