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Mental Health and Wellbeing in Lithuanian Medical Students and Resident Doctors During COVID-19 Pandemic

BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a negative effect on mental health and subjective psychological wellbeing. One of the most affected population is medical students, reporting higher levels of depression, anxiety, sleep difficulties, and overall poorer wellbeing. H...

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Autores principales: Stanyte, Agne, Podlipskyte, Aurelija, Milasauskiene, Egle, Király, Orsolya, Demetrovics, Zsolt, Ambrasas, Laurynas, Burkauskas, Julius, Steibliene, Vesta
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9092277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35573339
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.871137
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author Stanyte, Agne
Podlipskyte, Aurelija
Milasauskiene, Egle
Király, Orsolya
Demetrovics, Zsolt
Ambrasas, Laurynas
Burkauskas, Julius
Steibliene, Vesta
author_facet Stanyte, Agne
Podlipskyte, Aurelija
Milasauskiene, Egle
Király, Orsolya
Demetrovics, Zsolt
Ambrasas, Laurynas
Burkauskas, Julius
Steibliene, Vesta
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description BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a negative effect on mental health and subjective psychological wellbeing. One of the most affected population is medical students, reporting higher levels of depression, anxiety, sleep difficulties, and overall poorer wellbeing. However, the relationship between depression, anxiety, and sleep difficulties, and subjective psychological wellbeing has not been extensively researched in medical students in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between depression, anxiety, and sleep quality, and subjective psychological wellbeing. METHODS: In total, 524 medical students and resident doctors (78.6% female, mean age 24 ± 3 years old) participated in an online survey between December 2020 and February 2021. Participants completed the WHO—Five Wellbeing Index Questionnaire, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index questionnaire, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Assessment-7. RESULTS: Multivariable logistic regression analysis showed that female participants’ worse subjective psychological wellbeing was associated with sleep difficulties [odds ratio (OR) = 2.39, 95% CI = 1.37–4.18, p = 0.002], higher depression (OR = 6.13, 95% CI = 3.46–10.88, p < 0.001), and anxiety symptoms (OR = 2.95, 95% CI = 1.66–5.22, p < 0.001). In male participants, analysis revealed an association between worse subjective psychological wellbeing and higher depression scores (OR = 9.94, 95% CI = 3.29–30.03, p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Sex differences are an important factor to consider when evaluating subjective psychological wellbeing. Clinicians should be aware of significant contributors, such as sleep patterns anxiety, and depression, to subjective psychological wellbeing.
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spelling pubmed-90922772022-05-12 Mental Health and Wellbeing in Lithuanian Medical Students and Resident Doctors During COVID-19 Pandemic Stanyte, Agne Podlipskyte, Aurelija Milasauskiene, Egle Király, Orsolya Demetrovics, Zsolt Ambrasas, Laurynas Burkauskas, Julius Steibliene, Vesta Front Psychiatry Psychiatry BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a negative effect on mental health and subjective psychological wellbeing. One of the most affected population is medical students, reporting higher levels of depression, anxiety, sleep difficulties, and overall poorer wellbeing. However, the relationship between depression, anxiety, and sleep difficulties, and subjective psychological wellbeing has not been extensively researched in medical students in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between depression, anxiety, and sleep quality, and subjective psychological wellbeing. METHODS: In total, 524 medical students and resident doctors (78.6% female, mean age 24 ± 3 years old) participated in an online survey between December 2020 and February 2021. Participants completed the WHO—Five Wellbeing Index Questionnaire, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index questionnaire, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Assessment-7. RESULTS: Multivariable logistic regression analysis showed that female participants’ worse subjective psychological wellbeing was associated with sleep difficulties [odds ratio (OR) = 2.39, 95% CI = 1.37–4.18, p = 0.002], higher depression (OR = 6.13, 95% CI = 3.46–10.88, p < 0.001), and anxiety symptoms (OR = 2.95, 95% CI = 1.66–5.22, p < 0.001). In male participants, analysis revealed an association between worse subjective psychological wellbeing and higher depression scores (OR = 9.94, 95% CI = 3.29–30.03, p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Sex differences are an important factor to consider when evaluating subjective psychological wellbeing. Clinicians should be aware of significant contributors, such as sleep patterns anxiety, and depression, to subjective psychological wellbeing. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9092277/ /pubmed/35573339 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.871137 Text en Copyright © 2022 Stanyte, Podlipskyte, Milasauskiene, Király, Demetrovics, Ambrasas, Burkauskas and Steibliene. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Stanyte, Agne
Podlipskyte, Aurelija
Milasauskiene, Egle
Király, Orsolya
Demetrovics, Zsolt
Ambrasas, Laurynas
Burkauskas, Julius
Steibliene, Vesta
Mental Health and Wellbeing in Lithuanian Medical Students and Resident Doctors During COVID-19 Pandemic
title Mental Health and Wellbeing in Lithuanian Medical Students and Resident Doctors During COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full Mental Health and Wellbeing in Lithuanian Medical Students and Resident Doctors During COVID-19 Pandemic
title_fullStr Mental Health and Wellbeing in Lithuanian Medical Students and Resident Doctors During COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Mental Health and Wellbeing in Lithuanian Medical Students and Resident Doctors During COVID-19 Pandemic
title_short Mental Health and Wellbeing in Lithuanian Medical Students and Resident Doctors During COVID-19 Pandemic
title_sort mental health and wellbeing in lithuanian medical students and resident doctors during covid-19 pandemic
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9092277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35573339
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.871137
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