Social and hygienic aspects of risk factors of students‘ learning stress and possible ways of its prevention

Abstract

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of stress resistance among students of the medical University. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of stress hygiene during higher education. Problems with academic performance create discomfort for the student and, of course, increase the overall stress. The purpose of the work is to study the specifics of the influence of certain factors on the overall picture of educational stress in students and their stress resistance. With the help of the methods «Test for learning stress», developed by Yu. V. For the distribution of students into groups depending on the number of academic debts and the "Self-assessment Test of stress resistance" by S. Cohen and G. Willianson, an analysis of the stress resistance of 92 students of the Medical Faculty of the Yaroslavl State Medical University was conducted. As a result of the current study, the main indicators that affect the manifestation of stress in students were identified, such as: workload during study, fear of the future, lack of self — discipline, as well as predictors (prolonged sleep, communication with family, a break in school) that affect its frequency and duration. It is established that the main causes of stress among students are: irregular meals, living away from family, as well as living in a hostel with other students, fear of the future. All this leads to the appearance of behavioral and biological indicators of the severity of stress, which students can reliably determine by depression, fear, anxiety, excitement, difficulty breathing in preparation for the session, as well as headaches and other pains, dry mouth when passing the exam. Based on the study, recommendations have been developed to increase the level of stress tolerance in medical university students.