Background: Though a few studies have been carried out in India on exploring the stressors and coping styles of Indian medical under graduates there is a dearth of more extensive. Aim & objectives: This study is aimed to identify various stressors leading to stress & determine the level of stress among various academic years & gender variations.
Study design and methods: Cross-sectional questionnaire based study carried out among 402 Undergraduate students of Government Medical College from 01 Jan to 01 Feb 2015.
Results: The major source of stress was academic related factors among which female students perceived more stress than male across all domains. It was observed that the difference in stressors among first year & final year students were Interpersonal & Group activity related factors respectively
Conclusion: The major contributors for stress were academics, followed by group – activities, teaching & learning and intrapersonal & interpersonal related.
