Abstract

Background: Stress and different stressors are burden and problematic among medical students who need to adopt healthy ways of coping.The study aimed to detect relation between defective coping like internet use disorder and emotional eating with stress among medical students (from Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry and Nursing faculties. Anonymous 616 completed online forms with stress, internet use disorder, and emotional eating scales were assessed. Results: Mild, moderate degree and severe degree of stress among participants were (70.4, 27.4, and 12.2 % respectively). The mean internet disorder scale was significantly higher among participants with moderate /severe stress (p