MENTAL MORBIDITY AMONG GRADUATE AND RESEARCH STUDENTS : AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY

A cross sectional epidemiological study of mental morbidity among 1160 postgraduate and research students was done by census method. Goldberg's 60 item GHQ was used as screening tool and a person scoring 12 and above was taken as a case. The response rate was 92.5%. A prevalence rate of 16.63 w...

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Autores principales: Chandrashekar, C. R., Shamasundar, C., Kapur, R. L., Kaliaperumae, V.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1980
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013340/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22058446
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author Chandrashekar, C. R.
Shamasundar, C.
Kapur, R. L.
Kaliaperumae, V.
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description A cross sectional epidemiological study of mental morbidity among 1160 postgraduate and research students was done by census method. Goldberg's 60 item GHQ was used as screening tool and a person scoring 12 and above was taken as a case. The response rate was 92.5%. A prevalence rate of 16.63 was found. The relationship between mental morbidity and selected socio-demographic, motivational psychological variables; certain life experiences in the campus was studied. The results are discussed. This study is first of its kind in our country.
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spelling pubmed-30133402011-11-06 MENTAL MORBIDITY AMONG GRADUATE AND RESEARCH STUDENTS : AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY Chandrashekar, C. R. Shamasundar, C. Kapur, R. L. Kaliaperumae, V. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article A cross sectional epidemiological study of mental morbidity among 1160 postgraduate and research students was done by census method. Goldberg's 60 item GHQ was used as screening tool and a person scoring 12 and above was taken as a case. The response rate was 92.5%. A prevalence rate of 16.63 was found. The relationship between mental morbidity and selected socio-demographic, motivational psychological variables; certain life experiences in the campus was studied. The results are discussed. This study is first of its kind in our country. Medknow Publications 1980 /pmc/articles/PMC3013340/ /pubmed/22058446 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Chandrashekar, C. R.
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MENTAL MORBIDITY AMONG GRADUATE AND RESEARCH STUDENTS : AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY
title MENTAL MORBIDITY AMONG GRADUATE AND RESEARCH STUDENTS : AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY
title_full MENTAL MORBIDITY AMONG GRADUATE AND RESEARCH STUDENTS : AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY
title_fullStr MENTAL MORBIDITY AMONG GRADUATE AND RESEARCH STUDENTS : AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY
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title_short MENTAL MORBIDITY AMONG GRADUATE AND RESEARCH STUDENTS : AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY
title_sort mental morbidity among graduate and research students : an epidemiological study
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