Depression in health college students: relationship factors and sleep quality

Çelik, Neşe; Ceylan, Burcu; Ünsal, Alaettin; Çağan, Özlem

doi:10.1080/13548506.2018.1546881

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“…Although the percentage of our depressed HPS was higher than that of our MS, the prevalence of depression in our HPS was much lower than the alarming prevalence of more than 40% for applied medical science and nursing students shown by AlFaris et al ( 2016 ). Our data are more consistent with those of Celik et al ( 2019 ), who found that approximately one-fifth of the students showed depressive symptoms. Celik et al reported that nursing and midwifery students with poor academic performance, poor economic status, smoking or alcohol use, chronic illness or mental problems were more likely to experience depression (Celik et al, 2019 ).…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Our data are more consistent with those of Celik et al ( 2019 ), who found that approximately one-fifth of the students showed depressive symptoms. Celik et al reported that nursing and midwifery students with poor academic performance, poor economic status, smoking or alcohol use, chronic illness or mental problems were more likely to experience depression (Celik et al, 2019 ).…”

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confidence: 93%

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Heart and Head: Profiles and Predictors of Self-Assessed Cognitive and Affective Empathy in a Sample of Medical and Health Professional Students

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For medical and health professions, students learning to respond to others' distress with well-regulated empathy is an important developmental skill linked to positive health outcomes and professionalism. Our study aimed to investigate the sociodemographic, psychological, and psychosocial differences between medical (MS) and health professional (HPS) students and their empathic abilities, since both populations share common stressors, namely, dealing with suffering people. Additionally, we were interested in assessing the psychological and psychosocial predictors of empathy of MS compared to HPS. One hundred thirty MS and 86 HPS were administered the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Interpersonal Reactivity Index, Integrative Hope Scale, and UCLA Loneliness Scale. The two groups showed differences in their contextual characteristics, with the HPS group having larger families, lower parents' education levels, and lower family income compared to the MS group. In both groups, ~15% of students reported previous contact for psychological problems. A higher proportion of HPS (23.3%) reported depressive symptoms than MS (10%), and female HPS reported more intense feelings of loneliness than other subgroups of students. No differences were found between the two groups in self-assessed cognitive and affective empathy. In both groups, women showed greater affective scores than men and, at the same time, seemed to be particularly prone to personal distress. The cognitive empathic dimension of “perspective taking” was predicted by young age (OR, 612; 95% CI, 1.395–15.242) and the overall socioeconomic status (OR, 3.175; 95% CI, 1.154–8.734) of the HPS. Self-assessed affective competence was predicted by female gender (OR, 3.112; 95% CI, 1.328–7.288), depressive symptomatology (OR, 2.777; 95% CI, 1.004–7.681), higher mother's level of education (OR, 2.764; 95% CI, 1.147–6.659), and feeling of hope related to social relationships (OR, 1.367; 95% CI, 1.152–1.622). Risk factors for poor self-assessed affective emphatic skills were previous contact for psychological problems (OR, 3.263; 95% CI, 1.238–8.601) and feelings of loneliness (OR, 1.18; 95% CI, 1.09–1.276). Our findings emphasize the need to test psychosocial models to better understand empathic skills.

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confidence: 93%

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Heart and Head: Profiles and Predictors of Self-Assessed Cognitive and Affective Empathy in a Sample of Medical and Health Professional Students

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“…Similar results were obtained by Moreira de Sousa J et al who found a link between occurrence of depressive symptoms and lower curricular average grade among medical students [10]. Analogical link was described by Çelik N et al in a research conducted among 445 Turkish medical students [11].…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Analogical link was described among medical students in a research by Pan X F et al [17]. Çelik N et al showed that among medical students, poor quality of sleep increases the risk of depressive symptoms by up to 3.28 times [11]. Newbury D et al indicated a link between sleep deficiency and higher level of stress [18].…”

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confidence: 80%

Predictors associated with studies and lifestyle and subjective feeling of depressive symptoms among Polish medical students

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Duda

et al. 2020

J Educ Health Sport

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Introduction and objective. Depression is a disorder that medical students are subjected to. The aim of the research was to investigate the occurrence of subjective feeling of depressive symptoms among Polish medical students during the course of medical studies and to determine predictors of this phenomenon that are associated with studies and lifestyle. Material and method. The research tool was author's questionnaire. 1023 medical students from each year of medical education and different Polish universities took part in the study. Results. 52.79% of the respondents had noticed symptoms that might had pointed to depression during the course of their medical studies. The research suggests that predictors of subjective feeling of depressive symptoms among medical students are: repeating a university subject, repeating a year in university, low selfassessment of academic performance during studying, considering dropping out of university, low satisfaction from the choice of studying medicine, reaching for alcohol in order to destress or discharge negative emotions, not having interests that enable to relax, not doing sports regularly, not participating in social gatherings often enough, not sleeping enough, having problems with maintaining stable body weight and not being religious. Conclusions. There are many lifestyle and studies connected factors associated with depressive symptoms among Polish medical students. The study suggests that it is important for students and their communities to pay attention to the emergence of them in order to improve the well-being of students.

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“…The HDS group showed a higher BDI-II score, reflecting the selection criteria, as well as higher STAI-Y2 and PSQI scores, which are usually positively associated with BDI-II scores (e.g., Demirci et al, 2015; Mollayeva et al, 2016; Çelik et al, 2018). At the objective sleep level, the only differences were observed for the sleep onset latency: on average, HDS took longer to fall asleep than LDS.…”

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The Fate of Emotional Memories Over a Week: Does Sleep Play Any Role?

2019

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Although there is a wide consensus on how sleep processes declarative memories, how sleep affects emotional memories remains elusive. Moreover, studies assessing the long-term effect of sleep on emotional memory consolidation are scarce. Studies testing subclinical populations characterized by REM abnormalities are also lacking. Here we aimed to (i) investigate the fate of emotional memories and the potential unbinding (or preservation) between content and affective tone over time (i.e., 1 week), (ii) explore the role of seven nights of sleep (recorded via actigraphy) in emotional memory consolidation, and (iii) assess whether participants with self-reported mild-moderate depressive symptoms forget less emotional information compared to participants with low depression symptoms. We found that, although at the immediate recognition session emotional information was forgotten more than neutral information, a week later it was forgotten less than neutral information. This effect was observed both in participants with low and mild-moderate depressive symptoms. We also observed an increase in valence rating over time for negative pictures, whereas perceived arousal diminished a week later for both types of stimuli (unpleasant and neutral); an initial decrease was already observable at the immediate recognition session. Interestingly, we observed a negative association between sleep efficiency across the week and change in memory discrimination for unpleasant pictures over time, i.e., participants who slept worse were the ones who forgot less emotional information. Our results suggest that emotional memories are resistant to forgetting, particularly when sleep is disrupted, and they are not affected by non-clinical depression symptomatology.

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Depression in health college students: relationship factors and sleep quality

Cited by 57 publications

References 12 publications

Heart and Head: Profiles and Predictors of Self-Assessed Cognitive and Affective Empathy in a Sample of Medical and Health Professional Students

Heart and Head: Profiles and Predictors of Self-Assessed Cognitive and Affective Empathy in a Sample of Medical and Health Professional Students

Predictors associated with studies and lifestyle and subjective feeling of depressive symptoms among Polish medical students

The Fate of Emotional Memories Over a Week: Does Sleep Play Any Role?

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