Assessment Of Mental Health And Its Association With Socio Demographic Variables Among Students

The mental health of pharmacy students has been poor compared to other disciplines and led personal professional consequences. study was conducted assess the prevalence students. It includes 351 randomly selected from a College Pharmacy located in South India. A self-administered questionnaire used elicit information respondents. score ≥ 3 suggested while < represented good health. Data were summarized using proportions, chi-square test explore associations between categorical variables. Level significance set at p 0.05. mean age respondents 23.4 ± 4.3 years, 63.8% males, 0.091% sixth 23.07% fourth year levels study. Based on results 39.2% had status, 60.8% with status. factors significantly associated health, recent experience mistreatment by trainers or colleagues, perceived inadequate monthly allowance perception that medical training is stressful (p 0.05). More than third undergraduate traits provision accessible services/counselling strongly recommended early their training. half responded that, they lost sleep over worry feeling couldn’t overcome difficulties. Similarly, 63.81% self-confidence 66.09% thought themselves worthless.