Prevalencia de estrés académico, factores de riesgo y su relación con el rendimiento académico en los estudiantes de la escuela de medicina de la Universidad de Cuenca en el 2015

Abstract

The Medical School of the University of Cuenca has been recognized as one of the most prestigious faculties in the country of Ecuador, this is the result of the excellent teaching skills applied to their pregraduated students, extremely hard final exams, frequent quizzes, many hours on their Schedules and a lot of hard homework, but all of these variables can cause Academic Stress which could affect directly to the Academic Performance. The purpose of this study is to identify the prevalence of academic stress, risk factors and to see the influence over Academic Performance using the Inventario de Estrés Académico (I.E.A) modified, since first to tenth semester in 2015. The presented study is descriptive, quantitative and transversal, which used 285 participants of all the semesters available in the faculty. The prevalence of Academic Stress is high, 91.58% of all the students referred have had academic stress in their last semester in 2015. The prevalence in woman is 95.45% and in men is 85.32%, showing that women are more susceptible of suffering academic stress. Highs levels of stress are associated to a lower academic performance Conclusion: The prevalence of Academic Stress is high and it has significative association with lower academic performance been the most affected the students with female sex