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Are students prone to depression and suicidal thoughts?
INTRODUCTION: Depression may affect up to 9.8% of adolescents and young adults and is associated with significant life-long consequences. The aim of our study was to assess the association between symptoms of depression and demographic factors such as gender, having brothers or sisters, background (...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4495140/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26170855 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2013.38179 |
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author | Mojs, Ewa H. Warchoł-Biedermann, Katarzyna Głowacka, Maria D. Strzelecki, Wojciech Ziemska, Beata Samborski, Włodzimierz |
author_facet | Mojs, Ewa H. Warchoł-Biedermann, Katarzyna Głowacka, Maria D. Strzelecki, Wojciech Ziemska, Beata Samborski, Włodzimierz |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Depression may affect up to 9.8% of adolescents and young adults and is associated with significant life-long consequences. The aim of our study was to assess the association between symptoms of depression and demographic factors such as gender, having brothers or sisters, background (rural/small town or urban permanent place of residence), perceived financial status, current living arrangements, year and major area of study. MATERIAL AND METHODS: One thousand one hundred eighty-three students of medical or similar faculties, 71% of whom were females, anonymously answered the Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale (KADS) and completed a demographic questionnaire. RESULTS: We found that 6.5% of all participants (n = 77) had depression according to Kutcher's criteria whereas 1.5% of them (n = 18) reported suicidal thoughts. We also observed the influence of such factors as gender (p < 0.009), year (p < 0.001), major area of study (p < 0.034), and financial status (p < 0.000–0.003), on depression scores. Moreover, depressive symptomatology was most frequent in subjects who were only children, in freshmen and in students of psychology (11.5%, 13.2% and 16.7% respectively). However, we did not observe an impact of such agents as students’ permanent place of residence (p = 0.929) or current living arrangements on depressive symptoms (p = 0.940). CONCLUSIONS: Susceptibility to depression fluctuates throughout the course of study and depends on factors associated with the study itself such as the student's major or year of study and other socio-demographic agents, i.e. gender or self-reported financial status. |
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spelling | pubmed-44951402015-07-13 Are students prone to depression and suicidal thoughts? Mojs, Ewa H. Warchoł-Biedermann, Katarzyna Głowacka, Maria D. Strzelecki, Wojciech Ziemska, Beata Samborski, Włodzimierz Arch Med Sci Clinical Research INTRODUCTION: Depression may affect up to 9.8% of adolescents and young adults and is associated with significant life-long consequences. The aim of our study was to assess the association between symptoms of depression and demographic factors such as gender, having brothers or sisters, background (rural/small town or urban permanent place of residence), perceived financial status, current living arrangements, year and major area of study. MATERIAL AND METHODS: One thousand one hundred eighty-three students of medical or similar faculties, 71% of whom were females, anonymously answered the Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale (KADS) and completed a demographic questionnaire. RESULTS: We found that 6.5% of all participants (n = 77) had depression according to Kutcher's criteria whereas 1.5% of them (n = 18) reported suicidal thoughts. We also observed the influence of such factors as gender (p < 0.009), year (p < 0.001), major area of study (p < 0.034), and financial status (p < 0.000–0.003), on depression scores. Moreover, depressive symptomatology was most frequent in subjects who were only children, in freshmen and in students of psychology (11.5%, 13.2% and 16.7% respectively). However, we did not observe an impact of such agents as students’ permanent place of residence (p = 0.929) or current living arrangements on depressive symptoms (p = 0.940). CONCLUSIONS: Susceptibility to depression fluctuates throughout the course of study and depends on factors associated with the study itself such as the student's major or year of study and other socio-demographic agents, i.e. gender or self-reported financial status. Termedia Publishing House 2013-10-11 2015-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4495140/ /pubmed/26170855 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2013.38179 Text en Copyright © 2015 Termedia & Banach http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Clinical Research Mojs, Ewa H. Warchoł-Biedermann, Katarzyna Głowacka, Maria D. Strzelecki, Wojciech Ziemska, Beata Samborski, Włodzimierz Are students prone to depression and suicidal thoughts? |
title | Are students prone to depression and suicidal thoughts? |
title_full | Are students prone to depression and suicidal thoughts? |
title_fullStr | Are students prone to depression and suicidal thoughts? |
title_full_unstemmed | Are students prone to depression and suicidal thoughts? |
title_short | Are students prone to depression and suicidal thoughts? |
title_sort | are students prone to depression and suicidal thoughts? |
topic | Clinical Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4495140/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26170855 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2013.38179 |
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