Vol. 8, Issue 8, Part E (2022)

Abstract
Background: Health profession education is highly demanding and challenging for students to deal with a complex learning environment. Health care education can be a stressful experience for individuals and may negatively affect the students' emotional well-being and academic performance. Objectives: To assess the level of stress among students before the viva exam by student’s stress inventory scale, & to identify the factors causing stress before the viva exam by student’s stress inventory scale. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at late Shri Fakirbhai Pansare Education Foundations College of physiotherapy, Nigdi, Pune, among 82 physiotherapy students in their first to final year. They were screened for stress by using the student’s stress inventory scale which has 4 domains. Analysis was done by using SPSS software. Results: out of 82 study subjects, most of them were female (83%) as compared to male (17%). majority of students (48%) belonged to 4^th year followed by (29%) were from 1^st year respectively. Values produced on SSI indicate the majority of students (71%) had a mild level of stress followed by (28%) who had a moderate level of stress among university physiotherapy students. Out of all the factors affecting stress present study found that Academic and Environmental factors were the ones that affected the students most. Conclusion: The undergraduate physiotherapy students experienced (71%) mild, (23%) moderate & (1%) severe level of stress, out of all components academic and environmental factors were responsible for producing more stress among students of all years.