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- Title
Estado ansioso previo a una evaluación en estudiantes de Odontología.
- Authors
Calbacho-Contreras, Valentina Paz; Torres-Martínez, Pilar Alejandra; Rodríguez-Hopp, María Paz; Díaz-Narváez, Víctor P.
- Abstract
Introduction: It is common to observe anxiety disorder prior to an evaluation in university students; however, so far, at the Faculty of Dentistry at the San Sebastian University (Concepcion), it has not been established how the anxious state and its severity affect the results of an evaluation. Objective: To relate anxious state and severity of anxiety with academic performance, prior to an assessment in third year students of the Faculty of Dentistry, Uni- versidad San Sebastián, Concepción, during the academic period 2015. Materials and Methods: This exploratory cross-analytical study has a sample of 138 students. The Hamilton Test was applied in the third year of the Pre-clinical and Oral Rehabilitation course to those who wanted to participate after signing an informed consent. Data were analyzed to see whether there were signifcant differences in the presence of anxious state and severity of anxiety according (ANOVA) simple classifcation (Model III) for unbalanced data and compared by Tukey method. The level of signifcance was α≤0.05. Results: The means of academic performance and the means of the anxious state do not differ from each other (p = 0.188). Severe anxious state shows a lower performance value than the other ratings. With regard to sex and anxious state, these were equally distributed among subjects (χ² = 1.57, p =0.21). Conclusions: It is not possible to directly relate anxious state to academic performance. However, the presence of severe anxiety is associated with lower academic performance.
- Publication
Salud Uninorte, 2018, Vol 34, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0120-5552
- Publication type
Article