scholarly journals Perceived stress and prevalence of depression among first-year medical students

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
EndreddyAnanda Reddy ◽  
VenkataVenu Gopala Raju Srijampana ◽  
Bhagawan Rajana ◽  
Sri SaiTejaswini Muddana
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
First Year ◽  
Prevalence Of Depression ◽  
First Year Medical Students

The Effects of Exercise Regimens on Perceived Stress in First‐Year Medical Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Azmeer Khamisani ◽  
Shouli Tung ◽  
Erica N. Chirico
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Medical Students

scholarly journals PREVALENCE OF DEPRESSION IN FIRST-YEAR MEDICAL STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITAS AIRLANGGA, SURABAYA, INDONESIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Dina Arini Izzah ◽  
Suksmi Yitnamurti ◽  
Nancy Margarita Rehatta
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Social Stress ◽  
Severe Depression ◽  
First Year ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Prevalence Of Depression ◽  
First Year Medical Students ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Male Subjects ◽  
Female Subjects

Background: Depression is a mental disorder with a relatively high prevalence rate in medical students around the world. Medical students are often faced with a variety of pressures ranging from academic to social stress so that the prevalence of depression in medical students tends to be higher than general population. Objective: to find the prevalence of depression in medical students at Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia. Materials and Methods: This research was a descriptive cross-sectional study of first-year medical students at Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia in the academic year of 2017/2018. The data collection was carried out using Beck Depression Inventory II questionnaires as a measurement instrument and was analyzed by SPSS 16.0. Results: From 86 samples obtained from first-year students, 37.20% of them experienced mental conditions that were considered abnormal (mean score of 10.14 ± 7.093), starting from mild mood disturbance (23.26%) to the most severe category, severe depression (1.16%). There was no extreme depression category in this study. Furthermore, mean score of male subjects is 8.57 ± 6.120 while mean score of female subjects is 10.64 ± 7.351. Conclusion: This study revealed that the prevalence of depression in first-year medical students at Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia in the second semester of academic year 2017/2018 was quite high, which was more than one third of the total respondents, while the prevalence in female subjects was higher than in male subjects.

Perceived stress and well-being among international first year medical students in Romania

Psihiatru ro ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (52) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Costescu ◽  
Andrea Oprea ◽  
Dana-Cristina Herţa ◽  
Bogdan Nemeș
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Medical Students

scholarly journals Perceived Stress in First-Year Medical Students and its Effect on Gut Microbiota

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Revere Rusling ◽  
Joseph Johnson ◽  
Aaron Shoskes ◽  
Chunfa Jie ◽  
Li-Lian Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Gut Microbiome ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Year ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Stress Resilience ◽  
First Year Medical Students

AbstractMedical students are constantly under stress caused by strenuous medical programs, which may exert persistent physical and psychological effects on their well-being. Using medical students as a model population, this work explores the gut microbiome as a potential contributing mechanism for why individuals exposed to similar stimuli react variably. We evaluated the relationship of gut microbiome composition of first year medical students and stress resilience over a period of 4 months. Our objective was to identify gut microbiome characteristics of individuals that showed long-term stress resilience. Students were voluntarily recruited and screened for lifestyle and environmental factors at 3 timepoints during the first semester. Fecal samples were also collected at each timepoint. In order to identify candidates with stress resilience, their perceived stress and depression levels were normalized and summed to produce a psychologic index score. The most notable finding is a correlation between psychologic resiliency of Bacteriodete:Firmicute abundance as well as a relationship between durable resiliency and microbiome stability. Phylogenetic assembly of participants by microbiome relatedness found that 100% of subjects who were resilient to stress across all timepoints (n=8) were phylogenetically clustered in adjacent positions, showing a high degree of temporal stability. Of participants who were not durably resilient to stress, only 62% of participants (n=8) showed microbiomes that were phylogenetically related across the same 4 month period. We identified 2,102 Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) which were unique to the durable resilience group and 94 OTUs which were unique to the susceptible group. Of the 4,794 observed OTUs, 6.1% (n=294) were significantly different between groups. These findings support that the gut microbiome may play an important role in stress resilience at a time scale of 4 months. A better understanding of the role of the gut microbiome in stress resilience may shed light on potential treatment to reduce stress/anxiety in general, as well as to promote wellbeing of our future health care providers and physicians.

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