Prevalence of Stress and its Risk Factors among the Students in University of Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Abstract

 The purpose of the present study is to assess the prevalence of stress and to find out various factors associated with stress among the students of University of Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK). To select students from the university, stratified random sampling is used. Education department are considered as strata, and from each stratum simple random sample are selected. The stress was assessed by using ‘the workplace stress scale’. Data are analyzed using SPSS version 23 statistical software. Ordinal logistic regression model is used to identify the significant risk factors of stress among ungraduated students. We found that 67% students have suffer from higher stress. The logistic regression shows that significant factors associated with stress are academic workload, time management and self-Injury or Illness. This study investigated high prevalence of stress among undergraduate students in university. There is room for studying further the incidence of stress among these students and the major causes of stress.