medical students and mental health by scl-90-r
Authors
abstract
abstract background: the process of medical education is stressful and medical students are at risk of psychological problems. in addition to the normal stressors of everyday life, medical students must deal with stresses specific to medical school. the aim of this study was to assess mental health in senior medical students and residents. methods: this cross-sectional study included 100 senior medical students and 100 residents of iran university of medical sciences, tehran, between october and december of 2006. the measurement method was the scl-90-r questionnaire. respondents rate 90 items using a 5-point scale to measure the extent to which they have experienced the listed symptoms during the last 7 days. in this study we only reported gsi and raw scores of scl-90-r subscales. we used the cut off point of 0.7 for gsi. all statistical analyses were carried out by using spss for windows 14. asignificant level was considered as 5%. results: the mean and standard deviation of gsi was 0.55. overall 19.4% of participants had gsi more than 0.7, as suspected mental illness. 26% of residents compared to 12% of senior medical students scored higher than 0.7 on gsi with significant difference. 13% (11 subjects) of males compared to 24% (27 subjects) of female had gsi more than 0.7. this difference was significant (p= 0.05). 11.3% of participants with a good economic status versus 56% of those with weak status in economy scored gsi of more than 0.7 with significant difference (p = 0.006). the majority of participants (91%) with a good overall satisfaction scored less than 0.7 on gsi. this proportion between weak categories of overall satisfaction was 66%. there were significant differences between the two groups in the som, obs, int, dep, anx, pho, and psychoticism subscales. conclusion: about one-fifth of participants are suspected cases of mental disorder. residents scored significantly higher than senior medical students on all subscales (except hos and par) of scl-90-r and gsi score. the gsi score was associated with overall satisfaction, gender, satisfaction of the studying major and economic status of participants.
similar resources
Medical students and mental health by SCL-90-R
Abstract Background: The process of medical education is stressful and medical students are at risk of psychological problems. In addition to the normal stressors of everyday life, medical students must deal with stresses specific to medical school. The aim of this study was to assess mental health in senior medical students and residents. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 100 senio...
full textMedical students and mental health by SCL-90-R
Background: The process of medical education is stressful and medical students are at risk of psychological problems. In addition to the normal stressors of everyday life, medical students must deal with stresses specific to medical school. The aim of this study was to assess mental health in senior medical students and residents. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 100 senior medical ...
full textnormalizing scl-90-r inventory in guilan high-school students
abstract introduction: scl-90-r inventory is used for screening and assessing effect of some treatment. its sensitivity depended on environmental factors there are many shortcomings of its normalization in our community. objective: to normalize scl-90-r inventory in guilan high-school students in the years of 2003-2004. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study, 4015 subjects were selec...
full textRelation of NEO-PI-R personality inventory and SCL-90-R: Ability of NEO inventory in mental health evaluation
NEO-PI-R و SCL-90-R هنومن يور اه دـمآرد ارجا هب . لـيلحت شور زا نوـمزآ و نوـسريپ یگتسبمه بيرض ،نويسرگر T و هـيزجت یارـب لقتـسم هداد ليلحت دش هدافتسا اه . هتفاي اه : ناور لماع يدنژن (N) صخاش يمامت ،ناوت نيرتلااب اب طوبرم ياه هب SCL-90-R شيپ ار من ينيب و د . عومجم رد ، تيصخش يلصا لماوع شيپ نيرتلااب و نيرتهب ينيب هب ار اه صخاش دروم رد بيترت ياه ينامسج دنتشاد ساره و يربج ساوسو ،ندرك ...
full textSCL-90-R and 16PF profiles of senior high school students with excessive internet use.
OBJECTIVE To investigate the psychiatric symptomatology and personality characteristics of Korean senior high school students considered to use the Internet to excess. METHOD We administered a questionnaire packet to students that included 4 measures. These measures included a questionnaire on Internet use patterns during the previous month, the Internet Addiction Test (IAT), the Symptom Chec...
full textMental Health of Dubai Medical College Students
OBJECTIVE Considering the association between medical school dropout and psychiatric distress, we aimed to assess the prevalence of psychiatric distress among medical students at Dubai Medical College. METHODS One hundred and three medical students were chosen randomly and were assessed by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). RESULTS The mean age for the students was 18.85 year (Minimum:...
full textMy Resources
Save resource for easier access later
Journal title:
medical journal of islamic republic of iranجلد ۲۱، شماره ۲، صفحات ۷۱-۷۸
Hosted on Doprax cloud platform doprax.com
copyright © 2015-2023