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Background: Stress is an inevitable event in a medical student's life, especially during the clinical years.Overwhelming stress has a negative impact on student's mental health and academic performance.Objectives: To assess the perceived stress levels among medical students, identify the primary stressors, and explore the relationship between stress, academic performance, and socio-demographic factors.Subjects and Methods: This cross-sectional observational study included 240 medical students from the academic year 2020/2021.Data collection involved socio-demographic and academic information, the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), the Medical Student Stress Questionnaire, and the Brief COPE scale.Results: A substantial 89.3% of students experienced moderate to high stress levels (Mean ± SD: 27.83 ± 6.3).Female students reported significantly higher stress levels than males (p < 0.01).The primary sources of stress were academicrelated (70.4%) and teaching and learning-related (48.75%).Adaptive coping was used by 66.7% of students.There was a significant negative correlation between PSS scores and both GPA and adaptive coping strategies.Predictors of higher stress levels included lower GPA (B= -2.72, p= 0.003), being female (B= -2.4,p= 0.05), academic-related stressors (B= 0.219, p= 0.001), interpersonal-related stressors (B= 0.154, p= 0.05), daily-related stressors (B= 0.478, p= 0.04), and adaptive coping (B= -0.388, p= 0.00).Conclusion: This study document high stress level among medical students in Jazan University.There is a strong need for establishing students counseling program (academic and psychological), curricular modification, and improving facilities for recreational activities.
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