Associations among stress, anxiety, and depression in postgraduate dental students: a cross-sectional study
Bakhtiyar Islamzade, Ikbal Leblebicioglu Kurtulus, Ozden Melis Durmaz Yilmaz · 2026
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Bakhtiyar Islamzade and two colleagues measure stress, anxiety, and depression among postgraduate dental students, a group carrying patient responsibility on top of study demands. Undergraduate distress is well documented; the postgraduate years are not. Their 2026 study surveyed 192 trainees with a demographic form and the DASS-21 questionnaire, a 21-item distress scale. Scores were doubled to match the severity bands, then related to training factors with correlation and regression models.
The three states moved together tightly, every pairing significant. Stress and anxiety together explained a share of depression scores, with a model value of 0.696 for variance explained. Most trainees landed in the normal band on each subscale. Feeling financially middling, rather than comfortable, hinted at higher distress without holding up in the full model. Year of training, specialty, housing, and smoking showed no differences. The authors advise reading the web of distress as one problem, not three.
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| CREATOR | Bakhtiyar Islamzade, Ikbal Leblebicioglu Kurtulus, Ozden Melis Durmaz Yilmaz |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33879 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |