The objectives of this study were to evaluate the level of depression and stress among the first-year students at Suranaree University of Technology (SUT) and to compare the level of depression and stress among the samples, classified by demographic factors, including gender, domicile, and problem. This research has been approved by the SUT’s Research Ethics Committee. The study period was between July and August 2018. The online, self-report questionnaire was used as a research instrument to collect data from the sample of SUT first-year students. The total number of first-year students at SUT was 3,552 and the response rate was 65.15%. The major findings revealed that 7.0% and 51.1% of them were suffering from depression, and pathological stress, respectively. In addition, the prevalence of depression and pathological stress was higher in female samples than in other gender groups. The findings would suggest that related activities should be organized to promote students’ awareness of their suffering and self-control in order to prevent further depression and pathological stress.

BackgroundThere are numerous motorcycles for transporting students in Suranaree University of Technology (SUT) campus. The motorcycle accident (MCA) is a grief to student’s parents, friends, and SUT-staff. Road traffic Injury surveillance will help to monitor the situation that might cause the injury and find injury prevention.ObjectivesThis study describes a magnitude and distribution by time, place, and person of MCA at SUT campus.MethodsThis is cross-sectional descriptive study. New cases of MCA who came to the emergency room at SUT-hospital in past 3 years were retrieved from medical records and analyzed. There were 765, 849 and 562 MCA events occurring in 2015, 2016 and 2017 respectively. Based on available in-depth data in 2017, 562 MCA events were analyzed and described by time, place and person using descriptive statistics. Findings: 229 (40.7%) events were males and 333 (59.3%) were females. The most age of injured was 19–21 years old. 79.9% were the motorcycle riders and 19.4% were sitting behind the rider. However, the injuries usually occur during the month of September to October, and during the day of Wednesday to Friday. Specifically, most road traffic injuries have happened at 3–6 pm., and the accident tends to occur on the campus (89.7%).ConclusionThe results of the situation of road traffic injury help to promote SUT-student leaders for pre-hospital management, traffic engineering control, increasing bus transportation and security surveillance. Finally, SUT students should have self-awareness during use the motorcycle and passed the licensed driver.Policy implicationsThese measures attempt to implement for SUT policy in the further year.