Depressive symptoms among medical intern students in a Brazilian public university

Costa, Edméa Fontes de Oliva; Santana, Ygo Santos; Santos, Ana Teresa Rodrigues de Abreu; Nogueira-Martins, Luiz Antônio; Melo, Enaldo Vieira de; Andrade, Tarcísio Matos de

doi:10.1016/s2255-4823(12)70155-8

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“…29 This study shows significant association between bad perceived health status and mental distress, this was supported by other studies. 12,30,31 Additionally, our result revealed that exposure to violence in the past increases the probability of mental distress among the students. This finding was compatible with Wagner et al, 2009 who pointed to exposure to violence was significantly associated mental distress.…”

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Prevalence of Mental Distress and Its Correlates among Assiut University Students

2018

The Egypt. J. of Community Medicine

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Objective: To estimate the prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of mental distress among Assiut university students. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out. A multi-stage stratified cluster sampling technique was used. Data were collected by using self-administered questionnaire. The questionnaire included the sociodemographic characteristics of the students in addition to a group of questions derived from the self-reporting questionnaire (SRQ-20) that was developed by the WHO to screen for mental disturbances especially in developing countries. Results: This study included 828 of Assiut University students. Mental distress was diagnosed in 17.1% of students. By logistic regression analysis, university or higher education of the parents and higher educational achievement in the past year were protective from mental distress. On the other hand, female gender, bad perceived health status, previous exposure to violence and family history of mental health problems were significantly associated with presence of mental distress among the studied group. An intervention program is recommended to raise the awareness about the importance of mental health status among students, parents and university administrators and to overcome factors associated with mental distress.

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Prevalence of Mental Distress and Its Correlates among Assiut University Students

2018

The Egypt. J. of Community Medicine

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“…On the other hand, the findings of Melo-Carrilho et al 23 verified a significant increase in depressive symptoms in medical students attending the eighth semester (fourth year); this fact was associated with the beginning of the internship. In agreement, Costa et al 15 estimated the prevalence of depressive symptoms in students during the medicine internship to be around 40.5%. Factors such as contact with disease and death, the aggression inherent in many interventions, difficulties in communicating bad news, in addition to the need for specialization at the end of the course may be responsible for this symptomatology 8 .…”

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“…Studies 8,9,[15][16][17][18][19][20] using the BDI with cut-off points similar to those used in this study, found that the prevalence of depressive symptoms ranged from 13.9% to 48.2%.This broad variation seems to be indicative of bias in the data collection, which hinders comparisons between studies, only allowing them to be treated as similar.…”

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confidence: 70%

Prevalence and Factors Associated With Depression in Medical Students

Paula

Borges²,

Bezerra³

et al. 2014

J. Hum. Growth Dev.

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Introduction: depression, besides causing great psychological distress, may lead to poor academic performance and social relationships. Objective: to examine the prevalence of depressive symptoms in medical students from a northeastern region of Brazil. Methods: the population comprised 1024 students from first to twelfth semesters of two medical schools in Cariri, Ceará, Brazil. We used the questionnaire on sociodemographic characteristics and the Beck Depression Inventory II version. Results: the prevalence in this population for the diagnosis of depression was 28.8%.652 (63.7%) complied with all protocols to stay in research. After logistic regression, had a negative impact on studentsmental health: female Odds Ratio adjusted (ORa) (95% CI): 1.83 (1.19 to 2.82), reasonable physical health ORa (95% CI): 3.15 (2 0.09 to 4, 73), uncertainty about professional future ORa (95% CI): 2.97 (1.65 to 5.34), desire to change course ORa (95% CI): 2.51 (1.63 to 3.86), good social relationship but without participation in social activities ORa (95% CI): 1.96 (1.27 to 3.04), relationship difficulties ORa (95% CI): 11.40 (4.32 to 30.14) and rare leisure activities (95% CI): 2.45 (1.49 to 4.04) or eventual leisure activities ORa (95% CI): 3.04 (1.70 to 5.42). Conclusion: there was a high prevalence of depression among medical students in this region. Female, reasonable physical health, uncertainty over future career, desire to change course, do not participate in social activities and / or difficulties in relationships, sporadic or rare leisure activity were associated with increased risk of developing depressive symptoms.

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“…Students on undergraduate level around the world were prone to depressive symptoms. Such issues currently were reported in India (Deb et al, 2016;Kumar, Kavitha, Kulkarni, Siddalingappa, & Manjunath, 2016), Egypt (Fawzy & Hamed, 2017), Malaysia (Shamsuddin et al, 2013), Turkey (Sart, Borkan, Erkman, & Serbest, 2016), America (Beiter et al, 2015;Eck et al, 2014), Brazil (Costa, Santana, Martins, Melo, & Andrade, 2012), Ireland (Horgan, Kelly, Goodwin, & Behan, 2018), and Kenya (Othieno, Okoth, Peltzer, Pengpid, & Malla, 2014). In addition, a report by (Peltzer, Yi, & Pengpid, 2017) revealed that suicidal attempt among youth university students in 6 Southeast ASEAN countries (Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam) was significantly associated with childhood sexual abuse and depressive symptoms.…”

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Effect of childhood adversity experiences, psychological distress, and resilience on depressive symptoms among Indonesian university students

Kaloeti

Rahmandani

Sakti

et al. 2018

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth

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This study examined the role of childhood adversity experiences, psychological distress and resilience on depressive symptoms. The sample consisted of 443 Indonesian university students. Participants' age range from 17 to 21 (M = 18.60, SD = 0.61). Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Questionnaire, General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12), Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC), and Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) were used to guide data collection. Path analysis results revealed the direct relationship between the childhood traumas with depressive symptoms and, had no direct relationship on resilience. In addition, resilience partially mediates the relationship between adolescents' psychological distress and depressive symptoms but not to childhood trauma and depressive symptoms. These results indicate the importance of the influence of resilience and the importance of the development of university based programs aimed to promote resilience among Indonesian university students. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Depressive symptoms among medical intern students in a Brazilian public university

Cited by 17 publications

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Prevalence of Mental Distress and Its Correlates among Assiut University Students

Prevalence of Mental Distress and Its Correlates among Assiut University Students

Prevalence and Factors Associated With Depression in Medical Students

Effect of childhood adversity experiences, psychological distress, and resilience on depressive symptoms among Indonesian university students

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