Positive health intervention in medical graduation: Aplicações práticas

• Autor(a) principal: Machado, Leonardo
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Santana, Camila
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: HU Revista (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/hurevista/article/view/27181
• topic: Mental Health; Students, Medical; Primary Prevention; Mental Disorders; Saúde Mental; Estudantes de Medicina; Prevenção Primária; Transtornos Mentais

Introduction: The prevalence of mental disorders in medical students is globally high and this group tends to have more dangerous coping strategies. Systematic reviews have provided scientific support for interventions aimed at improving the well-being and mental health of medical students. This article presents the analysis of the reports provided by the medical students of the Federal University of Pernambuco who participated in an emotional training based on positive psychology, an area of ​​psychology founded in the nineties that aims to study human well-being and potentialities, in order to extend the evaluation of the intervention. Experience report: Initially, students were surprised at the new approach. The surprise was due to the dynamics themselves, but also to the fact that they are unaware of positive psychiatry and positive psychology, approaches aimed at the study and promotion of positive mental health through factors linked to well-being. Before the intervention, about 32.3% of the students had a risk score for common mental disorders, as measured by the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20). And despite this initial strangeness, both those with some psychiatric condition and those who were not felt direct benefit from the intervention that focused on positive mental health. There was also a perception that the intervention positively influenced their medical education and not only their own mental health, with the wish that the training had taken place before the course. Conclusion: The analysis of the reports of medical students from the Federal University of Pernambuco who received an intervention focused on stimulating aspects of positive mental health through positive psychology complement the understanding of the quantitative results found in a previous publication. Both students who were in some psychiatric condition at the time of the intervention, as well as those who were not, felt direct benefit from the intervention that focused on positive mental health. There was also a perception that the intervention positively influenced their medical education and not just their own mental health.