Stress in dental students during the transition between pre-clinical and clinical training: qualitative study

• Grant number: 19/15609-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 01, 2020
• End date: July 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Dentistry - Social and Preventive Dentistry
• Principal Investigator: Patrícia Petromilli Nordi Sasso Garcia
• Grantee: Franciele de Souza Ferreira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Odontologia (FOAr). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The present study intends to understand and characterize, in a qualitative way, the perceptions of students of the 3rd year of the undergraduate course in Dentistry, about the sources of stress during the transition phase between the pre-clinical and clinical training. This is an observational cross-sectional, qualitative, with non-probabilistic sampling design. The sample is composed by students of the third years of Dentistry, in Araraquara Dental School. Data collection will be through open interviews and semi-structured individual which will be recorded in digital voice recorder. Students will be interviewed in their own university environment, in time previously scheduled, taking care to provide an environment and welcoming booked to perform the same. There will be a script containing questions related to the dental students adaptation process to clinical training and their perception of sources of stress from this transitoin. Data analysis will be based on qualitative and quantitative technique of the Collective Subject Discourse - CSD and will be performed with the aid of Qualiquantisoft ® which is a computer program that was developed in order to facilitate the analysis of data from qualitative research using the CSD technique. (AU)

Scientific publications

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NORDI SASSO GARCIA, PATRICIA PETROMILLI; FERREIRA, FRANCIELE DE SOUZA; PAZOS, JULIA MARGATO. Stress among dental students transitioning from remote learning to clinical training during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: A qualitative study. JOURNAL OF DENTAL EDUCATION, v. N/A, p. 7-pg., 2022-07-03. (19/15609-7)