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Stress and Quality of Life Among University Students: A Systematic Literature Review

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Ribeiro, Ícaro J.S., Pereira, Rafael, Freire, Ivna V., de Oliveira, Bruno G., Casotti, Cezar A., Boery, Eduardo N.·2018·Health Professions Education
DOI 10.1016/j.hpe.2017.03.002
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Excessive and continuous stress has effects that go beyond mere health commitment, by triggering various diseases, and it is well stablish that this stress-related somatic events can affect the quality of life. Based on the exposed, the following questions were raised: There is association between quality of life and stress level in university students? What are the potential variables that influences this association? Therefore, this research aimed to analyze recent scientific productions about stress and quality of life in university students. A systematic review was conducted on the recent scientific production (i.e., published papers along the last five (5) years) in Scopus, Web of Science, Science Direct, PubMed and Virtual Health Library (BVS). For this it was used the following search terms: "quality of life", restricted to the title, "Stress" and "students" in the title, abstract or keywords, all entered in a single search and connected by the Boolean operator "AND". This study identified 142 articles in the scientific literature, but only 13 articles were classified as eligible according to the previously established criteria, highlighting the lack of studies that address the theme under investigation. Among these, quality of life was frequently negatively associated to stress and factors as insomnia and burnout were also associated with its deterioration. This systematic review highlights the negative association between stress and QoL in university students, through the deterioration of various aspects related to physical and mental health.

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Authors
Ribeiro, Í. J. S., Pereira, R., Freire, I. V., de Oliveira, B. G., Casotti, C. A., & Boery, E. N.
Affiliations
Southwest Bahia State University (BR)
Corresponding author
Ribeiro, Ícaro J.S.
ORCID
Venue
Health Professions Education
Publisher
AMEEMR, the Association for Medical Education in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Published
2018-06
Volume
4
Issue
2
Pages
70-77
ISSN
2452-3011 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.hpe.2017.03.002
OpenAlex
W2606182791
Cited by
684
References
6
Citations by year
2026: 68 · 2025: 85 · 2024: 159 · 2023: 98 · 2022: 97 · 2021: 83 · 2020: 52 · 2019: 28 · 2018: 13 · 2016: 1
FWCI
4.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
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  • Health Professions Education (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
Funders
The Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (#1533140/2015)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Student Stress and Coping
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Health and Well-being Studies
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
Keywords
stress, quality of life, university students, student health, insomnia, burnout, mental health, physical health

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