Mental Health Status of Medical Students: A Cross Sectional Study
Publish place: Social Determinants of Health، Vol: 1، Issue: 2
Publish Year: 1394
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Background: Mental health of medical students who will be responsible for community health has great importance. This study was designed to determine the prevalence of probable mental disorders during the internship period of medical students.Methods: This descriptive cross sectional study evaluated ۴۰۴ medical students of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, in Tehran, the capital of Iran. The data collecting instrument was a self-rated questionnaire including standard mental health questionnaire SCL-۹۰-R, demographic and socio-economic data. The score ۰.۷ and above were designated as possible cases of mental disorders. Analysis performed by SPSS software, version ۱۴ (SPSS Inc, Chicago, Il, USA). p-value<۰.۰۵ was considered significant.Results: ۵۳.۸% of participants were female, and ۷۹.۴% were single. From all participants, ۱۴.۱% had Global Severity Index (GSI) score more than ۰.۷. Mean and standard deviation of GSI score was ۰.۳۲ (۰.۲۷). The frequency of probable mental disorder in medical students was ۱۶.۳% in somatization; ۲۴.۵% in obsessive-compulsive; ۱۵.۶% in interpersonal sensitivity; ۱۶.۸% in depression; ۱۸.۸% in anxiety; ۱۴.۶% in hostility; ۱۱.۴% in phobic anxiety; ۱۶.۸% in paranoid ideation and ۱۳.۹% in psychoticism. Students who had no children, lived in dormitory, had good economic status and were satisfied with their private life and studying course had significantly lower GSI scores.Conclusion: Between ۱۱ to ۲۴% of the students had mental disorders in different dimensions and economic status, living place and number of children were related to the disorders.
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Mohammad-Reza Sohrabi
MD, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Hamid-Reza Karimi
MD, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Narges Malih
MD, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Ali-Asghar Keramatinia
MD, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran