scholarly journals Research on the Mental Stress of College Students in Southwest China amid the COVID-19 Epidemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 272-279
Author(s):  
Yanyu Xu, Wenlung Chang, Lihong Yang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Mental Stress ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Health Assessment ◽  
Preliminary Screening ◽  
Mental Health Assessment ◽  
Mental Problems ◽  
Southwest Region

This study designed related mental health assessment questions to investigate the mental stress of college students in China’s southwest region during the epidemic. In this study, college students from 5 universities in southwest China were selected as the research objects. A total of 1890 questionnaires were distributed, and 1812 questionnaires were recovered, with the recovery rate of 95.87%, of which 1808 are valid. The valid rate of the questionnaire is 99.78%. The data on questionnaires were imported into Excel for preliminary screening and processing, and the data were analyzed using the SPSS22.0 software. The enumeration data are expressed by percentage (%), and X2 test was performed for comparison. t test was used to compare the enumeration data, with P<0.05 representing there is difference. The research results showed that college students in Southwest China generally have different degrees of mental problems, and there are many influencing factors, including the following aspects: (1) It was found that compared with non-medical students, medical students have a lower degree of anxiety; (2) sleep quality. Generally speaking, mental state is closely related to the quality of sleep; (3) The degree of understanding of COVID-19. Students who have a moderate understanding of the epidemic situation are generally more anxious, suggesting that mistakes or limited cognition of COVID-19 can result in negative emotions of students; (4) This study revealed that with the reduction in the frequency of going out per week, the degree of anxiety of college students increases significantly.

Instruments for Quality of Life and Mental Health Assessment

2020 ◽  
pp. 187-198
Author(s):  
Marianne Abouyared ◽  
Alizabeth Weber ◽  
Jeffrey J. Houlton
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Assessment ◽  
Mental Health Assessment

scholarly journals P.047 The importance of assessing mental health in transition-aged adolescents with epilepsy

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (s1) ◽  
pp. S26
Author(s):  
S Healy ◽  
K Mabilangan ◽  
T Fantaneanu ◽  
S Whiting
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Assessment ◽  
Severe Depression ◽  
Pediatric Epilepsy ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Adult Care ◽  
Mental Health Assessment ◽  
Transition Clinic ◽  
Health Assessments

Background: When compared to the general population, researchers have reported elevated rates of mental health issues in the pediatric epilepsy population. These issues have been found to be especially problematic around the time of transition from pediatric to adult care. This is significant because depression and/or anxiety have been found to be directly related to worsened seizure outcomes and quality of life. Despite this, no known Canadian pediatric epilepsy centers have integrated mental health assessment into mainstream practice. Methods: To explore the importance of mental health assessments, we looked at the prevalence rates of both depression and anxiety in 91 adolescents with epilepsy aged 14 to 18 (M=16.3, 51 males, 41 females) enrolled into an epilepsy transition clinic. Results: 58.3% of adolescents showed signs of depression (28.6% mild, 21.4% moderate, 6.0% moderately-severe, 2.4% severe), and 51.8% of adolescents showed signs of anxiety (31.8% mild, 10.6% moderate, 9.4% severe). Remarkably, 54.8% of patients presenting with moderate to severe depression and/or anxiety had not been previously identified Conclusions: These results suggest that in order to ensure the best possible outcomes for patients, mental health assessments should be integrated into the standard model of care for transition-aged adolescents with epilepsy.

scholarly journals A Mental Health Assessment Model of College Students Using Intelligent Technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Keke Li ◽  
Weifang Yu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
College Students ◽  
Health Assessment ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Prediction Algorithm ◽  
Mental Health Assessment ◽  
Health Assessments ◽  
Intelligent Technology

College students are under increasing competition pressure, which has a negative impact on their mental health, as the pace of learning and life accelerates, as well as the increasingly difficult employment situation. As a result, emphasizing the importance of college students’ mental health and fully addressing it has become a top priority in the work of colleges and universities. However, some students and even teachers are currently unconcerned about mental illness, making it difficult for students with psychological abnormalities to receive timely detection and effective treatment. As a result, it is the responsibility of student management for colleges and universities to identify and intervene early in the mental health problems of college students. Through the use of multimodal data and neural network models, it is now possible to evaluate and predict the mental state of college students in real time, thanks to the advancement of intelligent technology. Therefore, a novel multimodal neural network model is proposed in this paper. Our model is divided into two branches in particular. The traditional mental health assessment and prediction algorithm, which is based on the improved BP neural network and the International Mental Health Scale SCL-90, is one of the branches. Given how difficult it is to meet the requirements for the accuracy of college students’ mental health assessments using this method, our other branch is computer vision-based facial emotion recognition of college students, which is used to aid in the evaluation of mental health assessments. Our model demonstrates competitive performance through simulation and comparative experiments.

scholarly journals Prevalence and Factors Associated With Suicidal Ideation in Medical Students With Migraine

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia-Ming Luo ◽  
En-Zhuo Liu ◽  
Hao-Di Yang ◽  
Cheng-Zhao Du ◽  
Li-Jie Xia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
College Students ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Test Anxiety ◽  
Migraine With Aura ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Anxiety Depression

Background: The association between migraine and suicide ideation has been identified. However, the predictive factors of suicidal ideation are still controversial and whether migraine with aura can serve as an independent associated factor is uncertain. This manuscript studied the association between migraine with aura and suicidal ideation and explored the predictive factors for suicidal ideation.Methods: We surveyed 9,057 medical students and included 579 medical students with migraine into our study population. All students completed the General Situation Questionnaire, the Verified Headache Questionnaire, Hamilton Anxiety Scale (24 items), Hamilton Depression Scale (24 items), 36-item Health Survey Brief (SF-36), Headache Impact Text-6 (HIT-6), Test Anxiety Scale (TAS), and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Suicidal ideation was measured by the Self-rating Idea of Suicide Scale (SIOSS).Results: Out of the 579 migraine medical college students, 562 (age 19.6 ± 1.6; 448 women and 114 men) were included in the final study. The positive rate of suicidal ideation was 13.7%. Compared with students suffering from migraine without aura, those having migraine with aura had higher suicidal ideation (p &lt; 0.015). After adjusting for demographic factors and headache characteristics, migraine with aura was found to be independently associated with suicidal ideation. Other independent associated factors include anxiety, depression, test anxiety, sleep, headache, and quality of life. Among these various factors, high quality of life was found to play a protective role against suicidal ideation.Conclusions: Migraine with aura is independently associated with suicidal ideation. Furthermore, anxiety, depression, text anxiety, poor sleep quality, and headache frequency are associated with suicidal ideation among medical college students with migraine.

scholarly journals Sleep quality, mental health and body mass index among undergraduate medical students: a cross-sectional study

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 3017
Author(s):  
Piyush Kharche ◽  
Rupali A. Patle
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Poor Sleep ◽  
Quality Of Sleep ◽  
Poor Sleep Quality ◽  
Medical College ◽  
The Difference

Background: Association of sleep disorders is found cardiovascular mortality, stroke, diabetes, impaired glucose tolerance, immune dysfunction, endocrine impairments, and psychiatric morbidities including depression. Sleep quality affects college students physical and psychological health. Thus, poor sleep quality is a serious problem in college students. This study was done to assess the quality of sleep among undergraduate medical college students, to explore relationship between quality of sleep and body mass index, to study relationship between quality of sleep and anxiety, to study relationship between quality of sleep and depression.Methods: Total 300 medical students were selected by systematic random sampling method i.e. 25 students from each year studying in 3 government medical college were selected. A descriptive questionnaire for all socio-demographic parameters along with validated instrument i.e. for sleep quality, Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI), for anxiety Hamilton anxiety rating scale and for depression, Becks depression inventory were used for the data collection instruments.Results: Amongst the 300 subjects 189 (63.00%) were found to be poor sleepers. The sleep quality was poor among the subjects who are in final academic year though the difference was not statistically significant (c²=2.78, df=3, p=0.4267). It was found that sleep quality was decreased among overweight and obese persons, but the difference was not statistically significant. (c²=4.657, df=2, p=0.0974). Prevalence of anxiety was found to be more in poor sleepers. Depression was also more common among the poor sleepers and the difference was statistically significant.Conclusions: Poor sleep quality was associated with depression and anxiety in students.

scholarly journals Anxiety disorders and psychological evaluation: Instruments used in Brazil

2020 ◽  
pp. 100-120
Author(s):  
Maria Luzinete Alves Vanzeler
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Health Assessment ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Mental Health Assessment ◽  
Assessment Techniques ◽  
Hamilton Anxiety Scale ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Fear And Anxiety ◽  
International Instruments

Anxiety disorders are characterized by fear and anxiety disproportionate to the situation that triggers and persists beyond what is foreseen for the event. They cause harm to the individual due to the suffering produced, worsen the quality of life and impose social restrictions. Psychological assessment techniques can help an investigation and improve understanding of these disorders. This study aimed to investigate the instruments for anxiety assessment used in Brazil. Thus, a literature review was carried out, searching specialized textbooks, journals and indexed articles (in capes, lilacs, pubmed, mediline, scielo and academic Google) in order to describe the most used ones. At the end of this study, it was found that the instruments for assessing anxiety disorders can be divided into seven categories: The first includes instruments that assess anxiety as a global construct; the second evaluates psychiatric disorders; the third comprises instruments that assess specific anxiety disorders, taking into account symptomatic behaviors and thoughts or feelings; the fourth category covers instruments related to specific contexts, such as hospital or sports; the fifth category includes instruments for assessing specific characteristics related to anxiety, such as concern, irritability, among others; the sixth category, covers instruments for mental health assessment in general as complaints related to anxiety seen as screening and need for psychiatric care and; finally, the seventh category comprises the other instruments that did not fall into the previous categories. It was also verified that the most used tests in Brazil from 2000 to 2015 were: Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS); State Trait Anxiety Inventory (IDATE); Hamilton Anxiety Scale; Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN). These instruments are adaptations of international instruments for use in Brazil.

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