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Prevalence of depression and its relation to stress level among medical students in Puducherry, India

BACKGROUND: Currently, depression among medical students is an important health issue at the global level. There is also a paucity of information on its relation to the stress level. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence of depression and its relation to stress level and other...

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Autores principales: Kumar, S. Ganesh, Kattimani, Shivanand, Sarkar, Sonali, Kar, Sitanshu Sekhar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5810174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29456328
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ipj.ipj_45_15
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author Kumar, S. Ganesh
Kattimani, Shivanand
Sarkar, Sonali
Kar, Sitanshu Sekhar
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description BACKGROUND: Currently, depression among medical students is an important health issue at the global level. There is also a paucity of information on its relation to the stress level. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence of depression and its relation to stress level and other factors among medical students. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted among medical students at a tertiary care medical institution in Puducherry, coastal south India. Beck Depression Inventory Scale was used for screening of depression and Cohen's Perceived Stress scale to assess perceived stress level. Data on associated factors were collected by self-administered questionnaire. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of depression was found to be 48.4% (215/444). According to the cutoff scores, 229 (51.6%) students scored as normal (0–9), 149 (33.6%) as mild (10–18), 60 (13.5%) as moderate (19–29), 3 (0.7%) as severe (30–40), and 3 (0.7%) students scored as very severe (>40) depression. Depression was significantly less among those with mild stress (adjusted odds ratio [OR] = 0.010) and moderate stress level (adjusted OR = 0.099) compared to severe stress level and those without interpersonal problems (adjusted OR = 0.448). CONCLUSION: Depression is more common among medical students. Stress coping mechanisms and improvement of interpersonal relationship may help to reduce depressive symptoms among medical students.
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spelling pubmed-58101742018-02-16 Prevalence of depression and its relation to stress level among medical students in Puducherry, India Kumar, S. Ganesh Kattimani, Shivanand Sarkar, Sonali Kar, Sitanshu Sekhar Ind Psychiatry J Original Article BACKGROUND: Currently, depression among medical students is an important health issue at the global level. There is also a paucity of information on its relation to the stress level. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence of depression and its relation to stress level and other factors among medical students. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted among medical students at a tertiary care medical institution in Puducherry, coastal south India. Beck Depression Inventory Scale was used for screening of depression and Cohen's Perceived Stress scale to assess perceived stress level. Data on associated factors were collected by self-administered questionnaire. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of depression was found to be 48.4% (215/444). According to the cutoff scores, 229 (51.6%) students scored as normal (0–9), 149 (33.6%) as mild (10–18), 60 (13.5%) as moderate (19–29), 3 (0.7%) as severe (30–40), and 3 (0.7%) students scored as very severe (>40) depression. Depression was significantly less among those with mild stress (adjusted odds ratio [OR] = 0.010) and moderate stress level (adjusted OR = 0.099) compared to severe stress level and those without interpersonal problems (adjusted OR = 0.448). CONCLUSION: Depression is more common among medical students. Stress coping mechanisms and improvement of interpersonal relationship may help to reduce depressive symptoms among medical students. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5810174/ /pubmed/29456328 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ipj.ipj_45_15 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Industrial Psychiatry Journal 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Kumar, S. Ganesh
Kattimani, Shivanand
Sarkar, Sonali
Kar, Sitanshu Sekhar
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title Prevalence of depression and its relation to stress level among medical students in Puducherry, India
title_full Prevalence of depression and its relation to stress level among medical students in Puducherry, India
title_fullStr Prevalence of depression and its relation to stress level among medical students in Puducherry, India
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of depression and its relation to stress level among medical students in Puducherry, India
title_short Prevalence of depression and its relation to stress level among medical students in Puducherry, India
title_sort prevalence of depression and its relation to stress level among medical students in puducherry, india
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5810174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29456328
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ipj.ipj_45_15
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