Assessment of level of stress resistance students of medical university

This article presents the results of studying the level of stress resistance among medical students. 140 people from all courses including residents were examined. The authors used the Usatov I. A. author's method "Test to determine the level of stress resistance of the individual" to assess the stress resistance. Also students were tested on the basis of the questionnaire horn-Ostberg in the modification of Stepanova to determine their type of the chronotype. It was found that medium level of stress resistance (64.3%) and "mild evening" type of chronotype (52.8%) are the most prevalent. The analysis of the dependence of stress resistance on the course and sex is showed. The lowest levels of stress resistance were observed in first, second and third year students and in the analysis on the basis of sex - in girls. The correlations between the level of stress resistance and the human chronotype which have shown that students of the evening type of chronotype have lower level of stress resistance than students of the morning type are analyzed. Due to this fact the article also proposes a system of prevention that helps to minimize negative manifestations in disorder of the cycle of "sleep-wakefulness".