An Epidemiological Study on Burden of Psychological Morbidities and Their Determinants among Undergraduate Medical Students of a Government Medical College of Eastern India.

Autor: Biswas, Bijit, Haldar, Anima, Dasgupta, Aparajita, Sembiah, Sembagamuthu, Karmakar, Anubrata, Mallick, Nazrul
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Zdroj: Indian Journal of Community Health; Jul-Sep2018, Vol. 30 Issue 3, p280-286, 7p
Abstrakt: Background: Medical education may impose a significant amount of psychological stress and strain on undergraduates. In India, there is limited evidence regarding the magnitude of different psychological morbidities (i.e. stress, anxiety and depression) among medical undergraduates. Aims & Objectives: To assess psychological morbidities and their determinants among medical undergraduates. Material and Methods: It was a cross-sectional hospital-based analytical observational study conducted from July to November 2017. In total 327 undergraduate medical students of a government medical college of Kolkata were interviewed with a structured schedule comprising of socio-demographic, behavioural related questionnaire and DASS (Depression Anxiety Stress Scale) 21. Data were analysed by the Statistical Package for Social Sciences, SPSS (version 16). Results: The overall burden of psychological morbidities among medical students were 48.3% with 33.0%, 26.9% and 21.1% of them were suffering from stress, anxiety and depression related symptoms respectively. The multivariable model depression, anxiety and stress were significant predictors of each other along with sex, semester, smoking and alcohol drinking, sleep adequacy and satisfaction with own educational performance. The variables in the multivariable models were explaining 29.0% of stress, 30.8% of anxiety and 32.2% of depression. Conclusion: Proportion of undergraduate medical students with psychological morbidities was found to be high. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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