Prevalence of Stress in High School Students Data Collected at Wannasorn Tower

Abstract

Objective: To determine the prevalence and factors affecting stress in high school students who attend schools in Wannasorn Tower.

Method: The data was collected from 199 high school students at Wannasorn Tower on February,2nd, 2016. The questionnaire consisted of 2 parts, the first part was personal information which include age, religion, educational level, major subject, GPA, allowance, household member, siblings, birth order, family status, family income, school type, target faculty, target university, underlying disease, personal medication, sleep time, extra class hour, hobbies and their past six months experiences. This inquiry was created by researchers. And the second part was Suanprung Stress Test SPST20. After collecting the inquiries from participants, the researchers hand out brochures containing information about stress and how to handle stress to all participants. The data was analyzed by SPSS program to find percentage of frequencies, mean and examine factors affecting stress by using Chi-square test.

Result: The result shown that 105 samples ( 57.7 %) have high level of stress and 33 samples (18.1%) have severe level stress. After analyzing data by SPSS program, the factors found to be associated with stress were underlying disease, loss of their loved ones and final exams (p-value<0.05).

Conclusion: More than 50 percent of samples have higher stress than normal people. The factors found to be associated with level of stress were underlying disease, loss of their loved ones and final exams. The result of this study can be used as a guideline to plan and find solution to alleviate stress in high school students associated with factors above.