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Stress continues to be a global burden. Research suggests that medical students perceive higher levels of stress than students in other health-related disciplines. Caffeine is a psychoactive substance that stimulates the central nervous system, medical students use to consume it more than other students to overcome the stress they face due to studying. A non-experimental cross-sectional correlational design was employed to gather data from 800 medical students enrolled in different studying years in different Lebanese universities. Well-established psychometric instruments were used in primary data collection method. Descriptive data were reported as means and standard deviations or as percentages. Correlational analyses were used to assess relationships between studied variables.