Mental problems and risk factors for depression among medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study

Prevalence of depression is high among medical students and several mental problems are identified as risk factors. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic causes difficulties that could adversely affect mental health. However, data concerning prevalence of mental problems, and whether or not t...

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spelling th-mahidol.855242023-06-19T00:43:37Z Mental problems and risk factors for depression among medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study Pattanaseri K. Mahidol University Medicine Prevalence of depression is high among medical students and several mental problems are identified as risk factors. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic causes difficulties that could adversely affect mental health. However, data concerning prevalence of mental problems, and whether or not these problems remain risk factors for depression during the COVID-19 pandemic in medical students are scarce. To investigate the prevalence of depression, social media addiction, game addiction, sleep quality, eating disorder risk, and perceived stress among Thai medical students, risk factors for depression were investigated. Online surveys via our faculty's learning portals were advertized to medical students who engaged online learning and 224 respondents provided complete data. Study-related medical students' data were collected using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 for depression, the Social-Media Addiction Screening Scale for social media addiction, the Game Addiction Screening Test for game addiction, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index for sleep quality, the Eating Attitudes Test for eating disorder risk, and the Perceived Stress Scale for perceived stress. Depression was reported in 35.7% of medical students, social-media addiction in 22.3%, game addiction in 4.5%, eating disorder risk in 4.9%, poor sleep quality in 80.8%, and moderate-to-high perceived stress in 71.4%. The independent predictors of depression were lower grade point average, social media addiction, and moderate-to-high perceived stress. A high prevalence of depression, stress, and poor sleep was found among medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical students who are stressed, have lower grades, and/or who are addicted to social media warrant depression screening. 2023-06-18T17:43:37Z 2023-06-18T17:43:37Z 2022-09-23 Article Medicine (United States) Vol.101 No.38 (2022) , E30629 10.1097/MD.0000000000030629 15365964 00257974 36197195 2-s2.0-85139332710 https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/85524 SCOPUS
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Mental problems and risk factors for depression among medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study
description Prevalence of depression is high among medical students and several mental problems are identified as risk factors. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic causes difficulties that could adversely affect mental health. However, data concerning prevalence of mental problems, and whether or not these problems remain risk factors for depression during the COVID-19 pandemic in medical students are scarce. To investigate the prevalence of depression, social media addiction, game addiction, sleep quality, eating disorder risk, and perceived stress among Thai medical students, risk factors for depression were investigated. Online surveys via our faculty's learning portals were advertized to medical students who engaged online learning and 224 respondents provided complete data. Study-related medical students' data were collected using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 for depression, the Social-Media Addiction Screening Scale for social media addiction, the Game Addiction Screening Test for game addiction, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index for sleep quality, the Eating Attitudes Test for eating disorder risk, and the Perceived Stress Scale for perceived stress. Depression was reported in 35.7% of medical students, social-media addiction in 22.3%, game addiction in 4.5%, eating disorder risk in 4.9%, poor sleep quality in 80.8%, and moderate-to-high perceived stress in 71.4%. The independent predictors of depression were lower grade point average, social media addiction, and moderate-to-high perceived stress. A high prevalence of depression, stress, and poor sleep was found among medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical students who are stressed, have lower grades, and/or who are addicted to social media warrant depression screening.
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title Mental problems and risk factors for depression among medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study
title_short Mental problems and risk factors for depression among medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study
title_full Mental problems and risk factors for depression among medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Mental problems and risk factors for depression among medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Mental problems and risk factors for depression among medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study
title_sort mental problems and risk factors for depression among medical students during the covid-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study
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