The Impact of Background Music in Reducing Stress in Preclinical Dental Labs

Ajman University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stress-related Problem

Treatments: Other: Questionnaire

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03725488

RDF-2015/16-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was designed to evaluate students' level of stress and impact of background music on their efficiency of work, performance and learning ability during pre-clinical lab.

Full description

The reported high level of stress among dental students and its consequences, considering the known benefits of background music. This study was designed to evaluate students' level of stress and impact of background music on their efficiency of work, performance and learning ability during pre-clinical lab.

METHODOLOGY: In this cross-sectional questionnaire study, 61 preclinical students from the college of dentistry, Ajman university-Fujairah campus who met the defined inclusion criteria participated.

After a semester of the normal lab without BM (Background Music), various genres of BM were introduced in the lab. Psychological stress assessment was done using P.S.S (Perceived Stress Scale).Students were asked to fill up a written feedback questionnaire at the end of six weeks of BM. Descriptive statistics and Chi-square test were used in order to study the statistical relationships among groups.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 23 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Students were not taking any
• medication for anxiety
• did not suffer from depression
• did not have any systemic illness;
• and they had no aversion towards music.

Exclusion criteria

• Students who were taking
• medication for anxiety
• had depression
• had systemic illness
• they had aversion towards music

Trial design

60 participants in 2 patient groups

Active

Description:

Evaluate stress among dental students by Questionnaire

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaire

the present level of stress, comfort zone & coping with stress

Description:

Evaluate how stress was coped, the coping mechanisms used through Questionnaire

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaire