Stress, anxiety &amp; depression among medical undergraduate students &amp; their socio-demographic correlates

Iqbal, Shawaz; Gupta, Sandhya; Epari, Venkatarao

doi:10.4103/0971-5916.156571

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“…According to a study conducted by Iqbal S et al, 44% of the males and about 60% of the females were under stress and the prevalence of severe and extremely severe stress was 8.3% among males and 16.3% among females. [3][4][5]10 Similar results were also obtained by Supe AN, Nandi M et al and Reang T et al [2][3][4][5] The prevalence of stress reported in this study was comparable with the study from Mumbai, India. 11 A study by Saipanish R showed that about 61% of medical students had some degree of stress.…”

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Level of Perceived Stress and Coping Strategies Prevailing Among 1st year Medical Undergraduate Students: A Cross-sectional Study from South India

Shakthivel¹,

Amarnath²,

Ahamed³

et al. 2017

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Level of Perceived Stress and Coping Strategies Prevailing Among 1st year Medical Undergraduate Students: A Cross-sectional Study from South India

Shakthivel¹,

Amarnath²,

Ahamed³

et al. 2017

IJMEDPH

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“…The results of this study indicate that medical students commonly suffer from physical health problems which are consistent from previous studies done among medical students in Goa 12 and Nigeria 11 in which 80.4% and 98.7% of the students reported some form of illness. But psychological problem was very less reported in our study compared to studies done by Adhikary et al in KIST, Nepal 16 in which 29% of the students had depression, 24% had somatic problems 16 and Venkatarao et al in Bhubaneswor, India 17 , in which more than half of the students suffered from anxiety (66.9%), depression (51.3%) and stress (53%). The poor reporting of mental health problems in our study may be due to fear of confidentiality and judgement as the physicians were teachers too.…”

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Health Seeking Behaviour among Medical Students in a Teaching Hospital of Nepal: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study

Bhandari

Chataut

2020

J Nepal Med Assoc

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Introduction: Medical students are more prone to suffer from various physiological and psychologicalproblems but rather than seeking for formal health care, they tend to do informal consultation andoften practice self medication. Thus, this study aimed to find out the health seeking behavior ofmedical students. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was done among first and second year medicalstudents of a teaching hospital from September to November 2019 after taking ethical approvalfrom Institutional Review Committe. Total of 235 students were included in the study and selfadministered questionnaire was used. Data entry and analysis was done using Statistical Packagefor Social Sciences version 20.0. Results: Among 235 students who participated in the study, 172 (73%) reported having healthproblems in the last 12 months, and fever and headache were commonly reported by 21 (13%) and 18(50%) students, respectively. Total of 112 (65%) students visited hospital/clinic for health problemsand reason given for not visiting hospital/clinic was 12 (28%) thinking that the problem was minor.University hospital was the most preferred place 189 (80%) during health problem and parents werethe first people for consultation 116 (49%). Mean duration of absenteeism was 2.17±4.1 days and 167(88%) visited hospital more than five times. Conclusions: Health problems were common among students and most of them required multiplehospital visits. Many students seeked for health from hospital/ clinic but informal consultationswere also seen.

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“…Students in extreme stress or depression need serious attention, otherwise inability to cope successfully with the enormous stress of education may lead to a cascade of consequences at both personal and professional levels [11]. To prevent depressive symptoms among medical students, decreased self-esteem, self-perceived medical errors and thus improve on the quality of care given to patients, factors associated with depression in medical training should be identified and appropriately tackled [12]. However, there is scarcity of data in Africa and worse still in Cameroon there is no data on depression and its associated factors among medical students.…”

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Prevalence and factors associated with depression among medical students in Cameroon: a cross-sectional study

Ngasa¹,

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BackgroundDepression is an important contributor to the global burden disease that affects people of communities all over the world. With high level of demands in academics and psychosocial pressure, medical students during their course of training tend to become depressed, leading to problems later in professional life and compromising patient care. In Cameroon, there is lack of data on the prevalence of depression and its impact on medical students. To determine the prevalence and predisposing factors associated with depression among medical students in Cameroon (preclinical and clinical). We also evaluated the impact of depression on self-reported academic performance.MethodsA cross sectional study was carried out in all 4 state medical schools in 4 different regions from December 2015 to January 2016. Diagnosis of depression, major depression and its associated factors were assessed using the 9-Item-Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and a structured questionnaire respectively. We included 618 medical students (response rate: 90.4%).ResultsAbout a third of them (30.6%, 95% CI: 22.8–36.7) were found to have major depressive disorder (PHQ Score ≥ 10). With regards to the severity of depression, 214 (34.6%), 163 (26.4%), 21 (3.4%), and 5 (0.80%) students were classified as having mild, moderate, moderately severe and severe depression respectively. The presence of a chronic disease (OR: 3.70, 95% CI: 1.72–7.94, p = 0.001), major life events (OR: 2.17, 95%CI: 1.32–3.58, P = 0.002), female gender (OR: 1.59, 95% CI: 1.06–2.37, p = 0.024) and being a student at the clinical level (OR: 4.26, 95% CI: 2.71–6.71, p < 0.001) were independently associated with depression. There was no association between depression and self-reported academic performance, (OR: 1.2, 95% CI: 0.9–1.7, p = 0.080).ConclusionThe prevalence of major depressive disorders among medical students in Cameroon is high and is associated with the presence chronic disease, major life events, female gender and being a student at the clinical level. So we recommend clinicians attending to medical students with demographic features suggestive of greater risk of depression, to make an in depth investigation on the possible presence of depression. Despite this high prevalence of major depression among medical students, it was not associated with self-reported academic performance.

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Stress, anxiety & depression among medical undergraduate students & their socio-demographic correlates

Cited by 260 publications

References 10 publications

Level of Perceived Stress and Coping Strategies Prevailing Among 1st year Medical Undergraduate Students: A Cross-sectional Study from South India

Level of Perceived Stress and Coping Strategies Prevailing Among 1st year Medical Undergraduate Students: A Cross-sectional Study from South India

Health Seeking Behaviour among Medical Students in a Teaching Hospital of Nepal: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study

Prevalence and factors associated with depression among medical students in Cameroon: a cross-sectional study

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