Stress factors and quality of life of Dental students

Authors

  • Maria Imaculada de Queiroz Rodrigues Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • Luciana Maria Arcanjo Frota Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • Myrna Maria Arcanjo Frota Universidade Federal do Ceará – Campus Sobral
  • Cinthia Nara Gadelha Teixeira Centro Universitário Christus

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30979/rev.abeno.v19i1.620

Keywords:

Quality of Life. Students, Dental. Education, Higher.

Abstract

The objective of the study was to perform an integrative review on the stress factors and quality of life of undergraduate Dental students. Articles published between the years 2014 and 2017, published in full, in Portuguese or English, were selected. The data search was carried out in the databases Scientific Eletronic Library Online (SciELO), Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS) and U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (PubMed), through the combination – using the Boolean operator “AND” – of the descriptors, in Portuguese and English: “Qualidade de Vida/Quality of Life”, “Estudantes de Odontologia/Students, Dental”, “Educação Superior/Education, Higher”. A total of 5.537 articles were found, of which 10 were selected. LILACS was the database with more studies selected (80%) and all studies were classified in level IV of scientific evidence. Studies that analyzed the levels of depression, anxiety, stress and quality of life were identified, as well as the most stressful factors among students of Dentistry in public and private universities. It was concluded that several factors are stressful for Dental scholars, among them the high workload during the course and the fear of failing during graduation. Studies that analyze the quality of life of these students are still scarce in the literature.

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Author Biographies

Maria Imaculada de Queiroz Rodrigues, Universidade Federal do Ceará

Acadêmica do Curso de graduação em Odontologia da Universidade Federal do Ceará

Luciana Maria Arcanjo Frota, Universidade Federal do Ceará

Mestre em Clínica Odontológica pela Universidade Federal do Ceará.

Myrna Maria Arcanjo Frota, Universidade Federal do Ceará – Campus Sobral

Doutoranda em Clínica Odontológica pela Universidade Federal do Ceará e Professora do Curso de Odontologia da Universidade Federal do Ceará – Campus Sobral.

Cinthia Nara Gadelha Teixeira, Centro Universitário Christus

Doutoranda em Odontologia pela Universidade Federal do Maranhão e professora do Curso de Odontologia do Centro Universitário Christus.

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Published

10-07-2019

How to Cite

Rodrigues, M. I. de Q., Frota, L. M. A., Frota, M. M. A., & Teixeira, C. N. G. (2019). Stress factors and quality of life of Dental students. Revista Da ABENO, 19(1), 49–57. https://doi.org/10.30979/rev.abeno.v19i1.620

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Vol. 19 No. 1 (2019)

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