Situaciones que generan ansiedad en estudiantes de Odontología

Abstract

It has been identified that high academic requirements that demand students within the university can lead to losing control and how to address the problems, even having high levels of anxiety and depression, as well as a number of not healthy behaviors that affect retention and academic performance of students. According to these considerations in this paper raises the importance of knowing the situations that generate anxiety responses in 87 students of Dentistry FES Iztacala UNAM, aged 17 and 31 years who previously had been applied to them ISRA of Miguel-Tobal and Cano-Vindel, and were identified as having high levels of anxiety, which led us to make a qualitative analysis to determine situations prevailing higher levels of anxiety and anxious response rates; also compared by sex and semesters. Results showed situations examination and public speaking as the most important to generating anxiety; likewise, it was found that women and men third semester women and fifth semester men are the most anxious, standing out type physiological responses.