خودبيمارانگاري و عوامل وابسته به آن در دانشجويان دانشگاه علوم پزشكي مشهد

Hypochondrias in Resident Students of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences

lntroduct ion : Hypochondrias IS a psychia tric disorder cha rac ter ized by a strong bel ie f and co nce rns abo ut having a serious mal ad y. As there is little resea rche s on it in Iran , this stu dy was de sig ned to determine the fre quency of these symptoms among the students of medicine co ns ideri ng their age, gender and educatio nal maj or and degree. Mat erials & Methods: This study wa s perfonned on 500 randomly selected s tudents in dormitories of Ma shhad University of Medical Sc iences. Those with a known previous medical or mental di so rder or defectiveness were exclude d. All the stude nts answered the de mographic questions and Evans hypoch ondrias ques tio nnai res in clu ding 36 items. Th e d ata was analyzed using appropr ia te s tatistica l de scriptive and analytic te sts such as independent t and ANOVA. Findings : In the present study , the prevalence of hypoch ond rias amo ng the s tudents wa s %36.8 at the bo rde rline level and 16% at the di sorder level. Out of the 70 ca se s with hypochondriac disorder. 57 people showed mild whi le 1:1 case s had moderate symptoms. T his disorder was Accepted: 10 Mar, 2009) significantly more prevalent in gi rls than boys (P=O.OOO). Th er e was no signs of association with mar ital status (P=O.3 I8) . However, all the s tude nts with moder ate disorders were single . Results of ANOVA showed the di fferen ces of hypoch ondri as variables due to ed ucat io na l fiel ds and cu rricu lum grades . Discussion & Conclusion: T he present study showed a hig her prevalence of hypoch ondrias in Iran ian s tudents of medici ne co mpared to those in othe r co untries . In co ntras t to ot he r s tudies , the disorder proved to be more prevale nt in women in this research. In thi s study. there was also a higher prevalence of symptoms in people with bachel or degrees than those with ot her educa tional le vel s whic h ca n be due to in accurate medi cal in formati on . In spite of high preva lence rate s of hypoch ondrias symptoms among the students , fu ll cri ter ia disord ers we re not prevalent.