Common mental disorders among health care students

Facundes, Vera Lúcia Dutra; Ludermir, Teresa B.

doi:10.1590/s1516-44462005000300007

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“…8 These results were similar to those found in our survey. Nevertheless, after comparing only medicine courses in Brazil, we found that the prevalence of CMD in students of the course surveyed (30.1%) was smaller than the results of another earlier study by the author in the same university (42.5%) than those found at UPE (42.6%) and UNESP Botucatu (44.7%) 8,14,19 but similar to those found at the Bahia Federal University (29.6%) and Santa Maria-Rio Grande do Sul University (31.7%). 20,21 We believe that similarities or differences drowsiness during classes, risk-taking behavior and depression, impaired social relationships, and poorer health.…”

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“…This cutoff, according to the SRQ-20, was determined based on several studies. 1,8,14 Although, this score does not implicate in formal diagnosis, it indicates relevant psychic suffering that draws attention to the mental health of healthcare professionals.…”

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“…In the last year of the undergraduate program, emotional exhaustion becomes more evident and ends up predisposing the students to common mental disorder. 3,[6][7][8][9][10][11] We know from the literature that the prevalence of common mental disorder in industrialized countries ranges from 7 to 30%. 4 Similar studies drawn from the Brazilian population, showed that this prevalence varied from 22 to 35%.…”

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Common mental disorders and associated factors among final-year healthcare students

Costa

Rocha

Santos³

et al. 2014

Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras.

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Common mental disorders and assoCiated faCtors among final-year healthCare students rev assoC med Bras 2014; 60 (6) Conflict of interest: noneObjective: to assess the prevalence of common mental disorder (CMD) and to identify potential associated factors among medical, dental and nursing students. Method: a cross-sectional study conducted in a public university in Northeast Brazil with 172 undergraduate students of the last three semesters of the medicine, dentistry and nursing courses, in February 2010, using the Self Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) and a structured questionnaire developed by the authors. Logistic regression was performed for data analysis.Result: the prevalence of CMD was 33.7%. The courses presented no differences in CMD prevalence. The logistic regression analysis showed a strong association of the following variables with CMD: female (OR=4.34), lack of good expectations regarding the future (OR=5.83), course as not a source of pleasure (OR=7.52) and feeling emotionally tense (OR=11.23). Conclusion: the high prevalence suggests that immediate preventive measures should be implemented, such as the setting up of psycho-pedagogic support services for students, and teacher development programs.

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Common mental disorders and associated factors among final-year healthcare students

Costa

Rocha

Santos³

et al. 2014

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“…[7][8][9][10][11] Among Brazilian medical students, the prevalence of CMD varies from 31.7 to 44.7%. [9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Permanent research on mental disorders among medical students and critical ref lection by medical schools regarding their role in the promotion and prevention of these disorders will help train physicians to be healthier and emotionally better prepared to help diminish the health problems of the people they assist. Thus, our study aims to estimate the prevalence of CMD, associated factors, their changes and movements over the course of six years of the medical undergraduate course among students of a class at a public university in northeastern Brazil.…”

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Common mental disorders in medical students: A repeated cross-sectional study over six years

Costa

Mendes²,

Andrade³

2017

Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras.

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Summary Introduction: Becoming a medical doctor is a very complex process. Factors related to the student’s personality, the educational process and the daily experience with death contribute to peculiar psycho-emotional experiences, not always properly investigated during medical training. Objective: To estimate the prevalence of common mental disorders (CMD) and associated factors, over six years of medical undergraduate course among all students of a class at a public university in Brazil. Method: Cross-sectional study based on repeated surveys. All 40 students enrolled in 2006 in the first year of our medical school were included and evaluated annually until 2011 using the SRQ-20 and a structured questionnaire prepared by the authors on sociodemographic, personal and educational aspects. We performed logistic regression and correspondence analysis. Results: The 40 freshmen in the first evaluation had a mean age of 20 years (SD=2.4), 57.5% were female, and 41% were approved after taking their third entrance exam. The prevalence of CMD increased over the years: from 12.5% in the first year to 43.2% in the fifth. The following variables were potentially associated with CMD: female sex (PR=1.38), originating from capital cities (PR=1.97), the program was less than they expected (PR=3.20), discomfort with program activities (PR=2.10), dissatisfaction with teaching strategies (PR=1.38), and feeling that the program is not a source of pleasure (PR=2.06), being R2=28.8% and AIC=60.04. Conclusion: The factors potentially associated with the high prevalence of CMD were those related to medical training, showing that it is necessary to implement preventive measures and review the educational process in order to reduce the damages caused by the development of CMD.

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“…Pesquisas nacionais recentes detectaram altas taxas de prevalência de transtornos mentais comuns (transtornos ansiosos, depressivos e somatoformes) em estudantes de Medicina: 44,7% 3 , 42,6% 4 , 42,5% 1 , 29,3% 5 . Estudo realizado com 413 estudantes do primeiro ao sexto ano da Faculdade de Medicina de Marília 6 mostrou prevalência de estresse de 57,4%, com predominância de sintomas psicológicos em 64% dos estudantes classificados como estressados.…”

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Atitudes frente a fontes de tensão do curso médico: um estudo exploratório com alunos do segundo e do sexto ano

Silva

Mascia

Lucchese

et al. 2009

Rev. bras. educ. med.

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PALAVRAS-CHAVE-Educação de graduação em medicina.-Educação médica.-Psicologia médica.-Estudantes de medicina. RESUMO A duas amostras randomizadas de 50 alunos do segundo e 50 do sexto ano médico foi aplicada a "Es KEYWORDS-Education medical undergraduate.-Medical education.-Medical psychology.-Medicine students. ABSTRACT Two random samples of medical students (50 each from the second and sixth years) were interviewed with the "Scale of Attitudes Towards Sources of Tension During Medical

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Common mental disorders among health care students

Abstract: These findings can serve as the basis for development of programs of disease prevention and student mental health care, as well as collaborating with reflections on the teaching-learning processes in university courses.

Cited by 105 publications

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Common mental disorders and associated factors among final-year healthcare students

Common mental disorders and associated factors among final-year healthcare students

Common mental disorders in medical students: A repeated cross-sectional study over six years

Atitudes frente a fontes de tensão do curso médico: um estudo exploratório com alunos do segundo e do sexto ano

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