Assessment of depression and suicidal behaviour among medical students in Portugal

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Autor(a) principal: Coentre, Ricardo
Data de Publicação: 2016
Outros Autores: Faravelli, Carlo, Figueira, Maria Luísa
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/49030
Resumo: © 2016 Ricardo Coentre et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use of work provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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spelling Assessment of depression and suicidal behaviour among medical students in PortugalDepressionMedical studentsPortugalSuicidal behaviour© 2016 Ricardo Coentre et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use of work provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0Objectives: To examine depression and suicidal behaviour and associated factors in a sample of medical students in Portugal. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study design of 456 native Portuguese medical students from the 4th and 5th year at the University of Lisbon. Participants answered a self-report survey including questions on demographic and clinical variables. Statistical analyses were conducted using the chi-square test, with a Monte Carlo simulation when appropriate. Results: Depression among medical students was 6.1% (n=28) and suicidal behaviour 3.9% (n=18). Higher depression scores were noted in female medical students (χ2=4.870,df=2,p=0.027), students who lived alone (χ2=8.491,df=3,p=0.037), those with poor physical health (χ2=48.269,df=2,p<0.001), with poor economic status (χ2=8.579,df=2,p=0.014), students with a psychiatric diagnosis (χ2=44.846,df=1,p=0.009), students with a family history of psychiatric disorders (χ2=5.284,df=1,p=0.022) and students with high levels of anxiety (χ2=104.8, df=3, p<0.001). Depression scores were also higher in students with suicidal ideation (χ2=85.0,df=1,p<0.001), suicidal plan (χ2=47.9,df=1,p<0.001) and suicidal attempt (χ2=19.2,df=1,p<0.001). Suicidal behaviour was higher in medical students who lived alone (χ2=16.936,df=3,p=0.001), who had poor physical health (χ2=18,929,df=2,p=0.001), poor economic status (χ2=9.181,df=2,p=0.01), who are/were in psychopharmacology treatment (χ2=30.108,df =1,p<0.001), and who had high alcohol use (χ2=7.547,df=2,p=0.023), severe depression (χ2=88.875,df=3,p<0.001) and high anxiety levels (χ2=50.343,df=3,p<0.001). The results also revealed that there were no differences between students in the 4th and 5th years of medical school regarding rate of depression and suicidal behaviour. Conclusions: Since depression and suicidal behaviour are mental health problems affecting a significant proportion of medical students, medical schools should implement programs that promote mental health wellness, physical health and economic status between other factors.IJMERepositório da Universidade de LisboaCoentre, RicardoFaravelli, CarloFigueira, Maria Luísa2021-07-20T13:32:52Z20162016-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/49030engInt J Med Educ. 2016 Oct 29;7:354-36310.5116/ijme.57f8.c4682042-6372info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T16:52:18Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/49030Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T22:00:35.352773Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Assessment of depression and suicidal behaviour among medical students in Portugal
title Assessment of depression and suicidal behaviour among medical students in Portugal
spellingShingle Assessment of depression and suicidal behaviour among medical students in Portugal
Coentre, Ricardo
Depression
Medical students
Portugal
Suicidal behaviour
title_short Assessment of depression and suicidal behaviour among medical students in Portugal
title_full Assessment of depression and suicidal behaviour among medical students in Portugal
title_fullStr Assessment of depression and suicidal behaviour among medical students in Portugal
title_full_unstemmed Assessment of depression and suicidal behaviour among medical students in Portugal
title_sort Assessment of depression and suicidal behaviour among medical students in Portugal
author Coentre, Ricardo
author_facet Coentre, Ricardo
Faravelli, Carlo
Figueira, Maria Luísa
author_role author
author2 Faravelli, Carlo
Figueira, Maria Luísa
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Coentre, Ricardo
Faravelli, Carlo
Figueira, Maria Luísa
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Depression
Medical students
Portugal
Suicidal behaviour
topic Depression
Medical students
Portugal
Suicidal behaviour
description © 2016 Ricardo Coentre et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use of work provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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