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Investigación en Educación Médica

2021, Number 40

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Inv Ed Med 2021; 10 (40)

Predictive and multidimensional analysis of mental health in medicine students

García MG, Sánchez MW, Luque RA, Herbert ZKA

Language: Spanish
References: 34
Page: 9-18
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Due to the stress of academic training, the importance of evaluating the mental health of medical students has been recognized for several decades.
Objective: Analyze risks, and examine if the study variables were capable of predicting adverse events in the participants’ mental health.
Method: Observational, cross-sectional, analytical study with a predictive research level. Students from a medical school in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico were included. The SCL 90R questionnaire was used, its dimensions constituted the dependent variables which were associated with various independent variables, highlighting a history of psychological and/or psychiatric care. All variables were dichotomized and a binary logistic regression model was used for the analysis. The field activity was developed on the university campus and the project adhered to current ethical regulations.
Results: 193 medical students from different school semesters participated, 52.3% were male. The psychological care was relevant as independent variable in all dimensions of the SCL 90R questionnaire (p‹0.05), but psychiatric care was only relevant for somatization. By eliminating confounding variables, the multivariate analysis also reflects that these predictors remain valid (p‹0.05). Being a foreign student, irregular and coming from public school are elements with an important association magnitude for depression and anxiety, paranoid ideas and psychoticism respectively. Female sex, foreign origin, ›5th semester, irregular academic status, coming from a public preparatory school, average ‹8 and without a history of specialized mental health care are more likely to be affected.
Conclusions: Medical students represent a group highly susceptible to presenting alterations in mental health.


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