Health care profession is considered a stressful occupation. Stress in these professions is not just confined to their practice, but is experienced by students within the same academic environment. Stress among students of bioallied sciences (Dental, Nursing, Pharmacy & Ayurvedic) is associated with cognitive impairment and is detrimental to health.
Objective: To know the sources of stress among bioallied science students.
Methods: A cross sectional study design using a modified version of Dental Environment Stress questionnaire (DESQ) was used to assess the stress among Dental, Pharmacy, Ayurvedic and Nursing students.
Results: Dental students showed higher stress domains, followed by Nursing, Pharmacy students being the least.
Conclusion: The findings of this study do not support that student of dental, & allied sciences experience high stress levels overall but, they have important issues and stress level vary according to that for each profession
