EVALUATION OF THE STRESSORS IN THE LABOR AND DELIVERY ROOM ON MIDWIFERY STUDENT OF MEDICAL BRANCH OF ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY, TEHRAN BRANCH

Clinical education is an important part of medical education .Students during their
study are usually facing with a lot of tension. The purpose of this study was to determine the stressors
in clinical education on midwifery students of Tehran Medical Science Branch, Islamic Azad University.
Materials & Methods: In this cross - sectional analytic descriptive study, 253 midwifery students who
were at their 5 to 8 semester studies and who have passed at least one clinical course of labor and
delivery, were selected in 2015. The questionnaire consisted of two parts, demographic profile and 48
questions related to stressors in six domains. The stressors were evaluated based on the Likert scale. To
analyze the data, descriptive statistics, mean and standard deviation, and statistical tests of independent
t- test and one way ANOVA, were applied.
Results: Comparing the average rate of stresses in 6 areas, we found that the most frequent stressors can
be classified as: Inter personal communications 14, educational planning21, educational environment
11, clinical practice 29, unpleasant feelings 32, and humiliating experiences 19. Maximum stressors
were in unpleasant an emotion, which is the highest stress factor, fear of transmission of infectious
diseases was included at this factor. Comparing tensions between the 5th and 8th semester students
showed that the tension level in the 5th semester students was more than the 8th p <0/001, and the tension
in married students was less than single students p <0/036.
Conclusion: To reduce stress, we should eliminate the stressful environmental factors by holding
workshops and training committee for the students of midwifery