Anxiety and depression among medical undergraduate students and their sociodemographic correlates in Sikkim: A cross-sectional study

Prevalence of Depression Among Undergraduate Medical Students in India: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis

“…Table 1 shows the study characteristics of the included studies comprising study population, study setting, study tool, study period, sample size and number of depressed undergraduate students along with ROB [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38].…”

“…The prevalence of depression in the nineteen studies ranged from 16.0% to 100.0%. The pooled prevalence of nineteen studies, [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38] 50.0% (95% CI: 31.0 to 70.0), was shown in Figure 2.…”

“…Minimal depression was seen in only four studies, [20,24,28,31] with a pooled prevalence of 28.0% (95% CI: 20.0 to 37.0) whereas mild depression was found in six studies, [24,[27][28][29][30]34] with pooled prevalence of 14.0% (95% CI: 4.0 to 28.0). The pooled prevalence of thirteen studies that have found moderate depression was found to be 15.0% (95% CI: 11.0 to 19.0) [20,21,24,25,[27][28][29][30][31][33][34][35]37]. The pooled prevalence of three studies that have found moderately severe depression was found to be 7.0% (95% CI: 3.0 to 12.0) [20,24,31].…”

“…Severe depression was seen in eleven studies [21,24,25,[27][28][29]31,[33][34][35]37] with a pooled prevalence of 5.0% (95% CI: 3.0 to 7.0), and extremely severe depression was found in five studies [21,25,34,35,37] with a pooled prevalence of 5.0% (95% CI: 2.0 to 11.0). Seven studies have seen the depression of undergraduate medical students among males and females.…”

“…The nineteen included studies were analyzed for heterogeneity and publication bias [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]. High heterogeneity was found in the analysis with the Q test (p <0.001) and I 2 statistics (I 2 = 99.6%).…”