Ouagadougou, The Association of Beninese Health Sciences Students in Burkina Faso (AEBSS / BF) equipped students from Joseph Ki-Zerbo University on stress management on Saturday.

According to the president of the Amicale, Mendéléreier Kouagou Yoxi, the observation in African universities reveals that most students are not trained in stress management.

Mendéléreier Kouagou Yoxi is a Beninese student in Master I of medicine at Joseph Ki-Zerbo University in Ouagadougou.

Mr. Yoxi was speaking at Joseph Ki-Zerbo University on Saturday, during a training on student stress management.

“It is no longer the high school where you just have to work to be able to advance, but you have to know how to organize your work at the university” he maintained.

According to him, “when you do not have the necessary organization, you fall into stress with its complications”.

He affirmed that it is a necessity for students from Benin in medical faculty, to initiate this training session to better equip their colleagues from all faculties for the success of their studies.

“It has happened to us in the hospital that a lot of comrades do not hold because they are perhaps not sufficiently organized”, he added.

He said that a sports activity is planned for next December by its structure for a better integration of the different communities in Burkina.

“We have a lot of activities that we want to carry out during the year 2022 and 2023 since we are there for two years”, he confided.

The trainer, also a psychiatrist psychotherapist, Boubacar Bagué, dwelled on the different types of normal, cumulative and traumatic stress.

Mr. Bagué is a teacher at the University of Ouagadougou. He noted that poorly managed stress leads to depression and often suicide.

He explained the different stress mechanisms, their management and the strategies to be followed to get out of trouble.

Boubacar Bagué made the case of the contexts which can lead the students in a state of stress as well as the different ways of their channeling.

According to the participant Rita Nadia Tapsoba, a medical student in Master II, the training will allow her to better channel her stress in the university environment.

“The training gave me a plus in the organization of stress because we experience it daily,” she said.

Created in 2004, the AEBSS / BF works for the development of its members in Burkina Faso.

Source: Burkina Information Agency