DOI: 10.36347/sasjm

Pages: 76-82

Medical students are exposed to diverse varieties of stress. It is reported during undergraduate medical education stress is related to academic, financial and social. Sometime stress arises from compulsion to succeed and also in difficulties of integrating education system. The study was conducted from junior medical students, Taif University, KSA during the academic year 2016-2017; Self-administered questionnaire was utilized to know the prevalence, causes, and levels of stress among students. 82% of study group had moderate stress, 12.67% had severe stress and 5.33% had mild stress. The prevalence of stress among junior medical students in Taif University, KSA was high especially in the past 30 days. Type of residence, average family monthly income, between history of sleep disorder, travel duration in minutes and BMI were the dominators for stress in general.