title: Chronic Stress and Suicidal Thinking Among Medical Students.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The subject of chronic stress and ways of dealing with it are very broad. The aim of this study was to analyze stress and anxiety and their influence on suicidal thinking among medical students.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study was conducted in the years 2014 to 2015 in Poland, at the Medical University-Nicolaus Copernicus University, Collegium Medicum. The objective of this study was to assess chronic stress and suicidal thinking among students and how students cope with this huge problem. Descriptive statistics and chi-square analyses were conducted to detect differences.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Analyses showed that students' life is full of stressors. Students toward the end of their education cope better with stress than students starting their university studies. Chronic stress has a strong impact on mental health and suicidal thinking among students.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of the study confirmed that chronic stress and anxiety have a negative influence on mental health and also confirm a relation to suicidal thinking in medical students. Students cope with stress by listening to music, talking to relatives or people close to them, resting or engaging in sports, with cycling, running and swimming being the most common methods used to affect suicidal thinking.
authors.affiliation: Public Health Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Bydgoszcz 85-830, Poland. ania.rosiek@wp.pl.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rosiek
authors.affiliation: Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Bydgoszcz 85-089, Poland. ola.chemia@wp.pl.
authors.forename: Aleksandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rosiek-Kryszewska
authors.affiliation: Department of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Bydgoszcz 85-094 Poland. leksowski.lukasz@wp.pl.
authors.forename: Łukasz
authors.initials: Ł
authors.lastname: Leksowski
authors.affiliation: Public Health Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Bydgoszcz 85-830, Poland. leksowski@poczta.onet.|Department of General Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Military Clinical Hospital in Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz 85-681, Poland. leksowski@poczta.onet.
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Leksowski
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D011044:Poland; D057566:Self Report; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D059020:Suicidal Ideation; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: chronic stress; mental health problems caused by stress; physical activity; suicidal thinking