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Occupational Stress among Dentists

Journal: International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Research (IJSER) (Vol.4, No. 7)

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Page : 28-30

Keywords : Hazards; stress; dentist.;

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Abstract

Introduction: Occupational stress is stress involving work. Occupational related stress "is the response people may have when presented with work demands and pressures that are not matched to their knowledge and abilities and which challenge their ability to cope. Stress is a normal physiological response to events that make us feel threatened, or upset our balance in some way. In medicine, it is known that stress, as an emotional state, can be a triggered for many psychosomatic disorders. Objective: To determine the occupational stress among dentist. Participants-120 dentists were selected for the study who are in the age group of less than30 and above years, in urban areas of the Lucknow district of Uttar Pradesh. Methodology: Ex- post facto research design was used to obtain and analyze the data. For selection of the respondents, multi stage sampling technique was adopted. A questionnaire was used to investigate the occupational stress among dentists using Occupational Stress Index (Srivastava & Singh, 1976). such as unnatural postures, feel discomfort, allergy, health related problems etc. Statistical Analysis: PAS Software was used for statistical processing. These study examined occupational stresses according to age of respondent were through ANOVA. Results and Discussion: The findings of ANOVA revealed a highly significant difference between the Occupational stresses among dentist. Conclusion: From the study, it can be concluded that the age of the respondent affected the respondent?s health. Stress, Low back pain, physically stress, is a one of the most common symptoms throughout the general population, mainly caused by long hours of work, types of work, gender.

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