| Autor: |
Bartira Oliveira Sacramento, Tassiana Lima dos Anjos, Ana Gabriela Lopes Barbosa, Camila Fagundes Tavares, Juarez Pereira Dias |
| Jazyk: |
portugalština |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Revista Brasileira de Educação Médica, Vol 45, Iss 1 (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1981-5271 |
| DOI: |
10.1590/1981-5271v45.1-20200394.ing |
| Popis: |
Abstract: Introduction: Common Mental Disorders (CMDs) imply psychological distress, interfering with daily activities, interpersonal relationships and quality of life. It is estimated that CMDs affect 9% to 12% of the world’s population and 12% to 15% of the Brazilian population in all age groups. Among different social groups, university students are more vulnerable to the development of anxiety and depression disorders. Objective: Therefore, this study proposed to estimate the prevalence rates and factors associated with symptoms of anxiety and depression in medical students in a capital city of northeast Brazil. Methods: This is a prevalence study, with a probabilistic sample of 1,339 students who regularly attended the 12 semesters of medical school in January 2018. Data were collected by applying a socioeconomic, behavioral and demographic survey and Beck Anxiety and Depression Inventories. The chi-square test was used to check for differences between anxiety and depression symptoms and socioeconomic and behavioral variables. The prevalence rates (total and by level of severity) and the crude and adjusted prevalence ratio (PR) were used as an association measure. Linear trend analysis was used to verify the existence of an association between anxiety and depression symptoms and semesters of the medical school. The variables that showed a crude PR with p |
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