Stress level assessment of medical students course and correlation with the methodology and learning style

• Grant number: 15/07521-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2015
• End date: August 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine
• Principal Investigator: Patricia Maluf Cury
• Grantee: Fernanda Fortuci Resende Botelho
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina em São José do Rio Preto (FACERES). São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Student enrollment in university life is almost always accompanied by some degree of stress. When teaching methodology is very different than the student was used to, associated with different learning styles that it may have, may further alter the emotional balance of the individual.Objectives: to establish the level of stress of medical school student at a college that uses an active methodology (PBL) observing whether there is stress in relation to the individual learning style than the teaching method that the student will be inserted.Methods: students will be interviewed in the first semester of the . The Inventory of Stress Symptoms for adults LIPP (ISSL) will be used to assess the level of stress in medical student and a Honey-Alonso Learning Styles questionnaire to analyze the learning style will be used too. An. analysis of correlation between these two questionnaires will be performed.This project is part of a bigger project where another Instituition with traditional model will be evaluate. (AU)