Health professions' students have an alarming prevalence of depressive symptoms: exploration of the associated factors
Health professions' students have an alarming prevalence of depressive symptoms: exploration of the associated factors
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DOI：
10.1186/s12909-016-0794-y
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发表时间：
2016-10-21
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3.6
通讯作者：
van der Vleuten, Cees
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作者：
AlFaris, Eiad;Irfan, Farhana;van der Vleuten, Cees
背景：有必要更好地了解抑郁症现象，并澄清为什么有些学生变得抑郁，而其他人没有。本研究的目的是比较卫生专业（HP）学生中抑郁症状的患病率，并探讨社会人口学因素（如学习年限，学科，性别）和抑郁症状之间的关系。方法：在这个连续分析，横断面研究中，分层比例抽样策略，选择2012-2013学年的研究样本。来自位于沙特阿拉伯利雅得的一所大型公立大学内的四所卫生专业学校的学生使用21项贝克抑郁量表（BDI II）筛查抑郁症状。结果：总有效率为79.0%，牙科学生的有效率最高，为86.1%，护理人员的有效率最低，为49.7%。抑郁症状的总体患病率为47.0%;牙科学生最高（51.6%），其次是医学（46.2%），应用医学科学（AMS）（45.7%），护理学生最低（44.2%）。一个统计学上显着的关联被发现之间的存在和严重程度的抑郁症状，一方面和女性性别（p = 0.000）和一年的study.Conclusion：这项研究似乎表明了一个惊人的速度抑郁症状。女性、牙科、所有学校的第三年和医学和牙科的第五年与抑郁症状的关联最高。未来的研究可能需要进一步探讨这些群体中抑郁症状患病率变化的原因和解释。值得探讨的因素包括课程变量和个人因素，如学生的学习技能。
Background: There is a need to better understand the depression phenomenon and to clarify why some students become depressed and others don't. The purpose of this study was to compare the prevalence of depressive symptoms among health professions' (HP) students, and to explore the association between socio-demographic factors (e.g. year of study, discipline, gender) and depressive symptoms.Methods: In this descriptive-analytic, cross-sectional study, stratified proportionate sampling strategy was used to select the study sample during the academic year 2012-2013. The students from four health professions' schools situated within a large, public university located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia were screened for depressive symptoms using the 21-item Beck Depression Inventory (BDI II). Chi-square test, student t-test and ANOVA were used to compare different categorical variables.Results: The overall response rate was 79.0 %, the highest among dental students 86.1 %, and lowest among nursing (49.7 %). The overall prevalence rate of depressive symptoms was 47.0 %; it was highest among dentistry students (51.6 %), followed by medicine (46.2 %), applied medical sciences (AMS) (45.7 %) and lowest among nursing students (44.2 %). A statistically significant association was found between the presence and severity of depressive symptoms on one hand and the female gender (p = 0.000) and year of study on the other hand.Conclusion: This study seems to indicate an alarming rate of depressive symptoms. Female gender, dentistry, the third year for all schools and fifth year for medicine and dentistry have the highest association with depressive symptoms. Future studies may be needed to explore further the reasons and explanations for the variation in the prevalence of depressive symptoms among these groups. The factors that deserve exploration include curricular variables and personal factors such as the students' study skills.