Investigating Stress Factors in Medical Students of Jahrom University of Medical Sciences: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study in 2022

Background: medical students experience high stress during their studies. high levels of stress may negatively affect cognitive performance and learning in medical school students. therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate stress factors in medical students of jahrom university of medical sciences: a cross-sectional descriptive study in 2022. methods: this is a cross-sectional descriptive study that was conducted on 100 medical students of jahrom university of medical sciences in 2022. the tools of data collection in this study are two demographic information questionnaires and clinical stress factors questionnaire. demographic information questionnaire includes: age, gender, academic semester and duration of internships. in order to evaluate the stress factors of the clinical environment, the kack & kleehammer questionnaire of the stress factors of the clinical environment was used. results: the average tension of students was 2.20±0.66. the stress level of more than half of the students was at an average level (51%). the stress level was severe in 11% of medical students. also, tension in female students was significantly higher than male students (p=0.032). among the stress factors, the high amount of material to be learned was reported as the highest stress factor for students. conclusion: according to the results of this study, which showed that the highest level of stress-causing factors in medical students were related to academic issues, this area needs serious attention and planning to reduce the level of stress-causing factors.