Prevalence of Emotional Disorders Among Students of University of Medical Sciences; Iran

Akbari, Valiollah; Hajian, Abbas; Damirchi, Parisa

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“…One hundred ninety-five studies involving a total of 129 123 individuals in 47 countries were included in the analysis (Figure 1). The median number of participants per study was 336 (range, 44-10 140).…”

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“…The median number of participants per study was 336 (range, 44-10 140). One hundred sixty-seven cross-sectional studies (n = 116 628) and 16 longitudinal studies (n = 5728) in 43 countries reported on depression or depressive symptom prevalence (Table 1). Twenty-four cross-sectional studies (n = 21 002) in 15 countries reported on the prevalence of suicidal ideation (Table 2).…”

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Prevalence of Depression, Depressive Symptoms, and Suicidal Ideation Among Medical Students

Rotenstein

Ramos

Torre

et al. 2016

JAMA

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IMPORTANCE Medical students are at high risk for depression and suicidal ideation. However, the prevalence estimates of these disorders vary between studies.OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of depression, depressive symptoms, and suicidal ideation in medical students.DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SELECTION Systematic search of EMBASE, ERIC, MEDLINE, psycARTICLES, and psycINFO without language restriction for studies on the prevalence of depression, depressive symptoms, or suicidal ideation in medical students published before September 17, 2016. Studies that were published in the peer-reviewed literature and used validated assessment methods were included.DATA EXTRACTION AND SYNTHESIS Information on study characteristics; prevalence of depression or depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation; and whether students who screened positive for depression sought treatment was extracted independently by 3 investigators. Estimates were pooled using random-effects meta-analysis. Differences by study-level characteristics were estimated using stratified meta-analysis and meta-regression. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURESPoint or period prevalence of depression, depressive symptoms, or suicidal ideation as assessed by validated questionnaire or structured interview.RESULTS Depression or depressive symptom prevalence data were extracted from 167 cross-sectional studies (n = 116 628) and 16 longitudinal studies (n = 5728) from 43 countries. All but 1 study used self-report instruments. The overall pooled crude prevalence of depression or depressive symptoms was 27.2% (37 933/122 356 individuals; 95% CI, 24.7% to 29.9%, I 2 = 98.9%). Summary prevalence estimates ranged across assessment modalities from 9.3% to 55.9%. Depressive symptom prevalence remained relatively constant over the period studied (baseline survey year range of 1982-2015; slope, 0.2% increase per year [95% CI, −0.2% to 0.7%]). In the 9 longitudinal studies that assessed depressive symptoms before and during medical school (n = 2432), the median absolute increase in symptoms was 13.5% (range, 0.6% to 35.3%). Prevalence estimates did not significantly differ between studies of only preclinical students and studies of only clinical students (23.7% [95% CI, 19.5% to 28.5%] vs 22.4% [95% CI, 17.6% to 28.2%]; P = .72). The percentage of medical students screening positive for depression who sought psychiatric treatment was 15.7% (110/954 individuals; 95% CI, 10.2% to 23.4%, I 2 = 70.1%). Suicidal ideation prevalence data were extracted from 24 cross-sectional studies (n = 21 002) from 15 countries. All but 1 study used self-report instruments. The overall pooled crude prevalence of suicidal ideation was 11.1% (2043/21 002 individuals; 95% CI, 9.0% to 13.7%, I 2 = 95.8%). Summary prevalence estimates ranged across assessment modalities from 7.4% to 24.2%. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCEIn this systematic review, the summary estimate of the prevalence of depression or depressive symptoms among medical students was 27.2% and that of suicidal ideation was 11.1%. Further research is nee...

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Prevalence of Depression, Depressive Symptoms, and Suicidal Ideation Among Medical Students

Rotenstein

Ramos

Torre

et al. 2016

JAMA

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1,409

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“…This tool is well potent to distinguish sleep disorders such as primary insomnia, major depression and daytime over sleepiness from normal sleep [5,6]. The PSQI-P is constructed of seven parts based on international classification of sleep disorders to find sufferers in a period of last four weeks [5][6][7].…”

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Evaluating of Sleep Quality in Shift-Work Nurses; Iran

Akbari¹,

Hajian²

2015

J Sleep Disord Ther

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Sleep quality directly influences mental and physical acts of human. Shift workers, such as nurses are at extreme risk for poor sleep. In this article we have attempt to evaluate how the beliefs of nurses about their sleep quality were. The paper is a cross sectional study among 370 nurses and correlates to demographics. Totally 151 (41%) men and 219 (59%) women participated. All of them had nursing education degree and had work experience. We found the prevalence of sleep disturbances as high as 86% and total mean score of the Persian version of Pittsburg's Sleep Questionnaire Index (PSQI-P) calculated 7.13 ± 2.5 in the study. The most common complaint of shift-work nurses was delay in sleeping initiation. We did not find any significant relation between sleep disorders and gender, age, years of nursing and hospital department of service. Although, inadequate sleep quality is a worldwide problem, but the wide difference between subjective findings of nurses and those of the general population is very significant.

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“…Furthermore depression in this stage of life can lead to some negative consequences that affect the other stages of the life. Although this study did not show a significant relationship between mental health and individualism, the increasing prevalence of mental disorders among students in comparison with general population in Iran should not be ignored (Akbari et al , 2014). It seems that individual-level mental health is toughly mediated by the context in which students live and perform their daily activities.…”

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“…According to WHO, approximately half of the population of the world would be affected by mental disorders by the year 2020 (Storrie et al , 2010; Noohi et al , 2013). Also, it is predicted that mental disorders would be one of the largest contributors to the global burden of disease by the year 2020 (Akbari et al , 2014; Yazdi Feyzabadi et al , 2015).…”

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Mental health, family orientation, and individualism: a systematic review and meta-analysis in Iranian students

Mostafavi

Ziloochi

Delavari

et al. 2017

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Purpose Mental health is one of the most important factors for evaluating the health of different age groups in the community. The most common forms of mental health disorders are depression and anxiety. Health status of students as an important age group has positive consequences in the community. To provide special recommendations for preventing mental disorders, the purpose of this paper is to determine the correlations among the individualism and family orientation and mental health. Design/methodology/approach A meta-analysis was conducted to find scores of mental health. International databases of Scopus and PubMed as well as Iranian databases of IranMedex and SID were systematically searched in September 2014 for studies conducted on Iranian students. Of 379 reviewed studies, 58 were selected for meta-analysis. A meta-regression model was estimated to show the effects of individualism and family orientation on mental health. Findings Eight studies were conducted in Tehran. Eight studies were published in English. In nine studies, school students, and in one study both school and university students were surveyed. General Health Questionnaire-28 score varied from 13.77 in Arak to 47.78 in Tehran. The results of this study showed that the pooled mental health score for Iranian students was 23.725, indicating that Iranian students had poor mental health. In meta-regression, the coefficient of family orientation was −0.2893 and it was significant. Other variables did not have any significant relationship with mental health scores. Originality/value Improvement of living conditions and enabling the youth to positively communicate with different social groups are recommended.

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Prevalence of Emotional Disorders Among Students of University of Medical Sciences; Iran

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Prevalence of Depression, Depressive Symptoms, and Suicidal Ideation Among Medical Students

Prevalence of Depression, Depressive Symptoms, and Suicidal Ideation Among Medical Students

Evaluating of Sleep Quality in Shift-Work Nurses; Iran

Mental health, family orientation, and individualism: a systematic review and meta-analysis in Iranian students

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