بررسي وضعيت سلامت رواني دانشجويان ورودي سال هاي 85 -81 دانشگاه علوم پزشكي شهيد صدوقي يزد

To evaluate the psychological status of new entering Students of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences from 2003 to 2007

Background : Psychological part of Health, as well programs for screening of students at risk of psychiatrics disorders have been especially attained by decision makers during recent decays. In this way a large numbers of favorable activities have been planned for the prevention of psycho-socia labnormalities as well as escalation of psychological level of health in this group. Method: The present Descriptive cross sectional study aimed to evaluate of trend St compar­ing the psychological status of new entering students of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences during 5 years (from 2003 to 2007). 1797 subjects were studied by census method. The tools of enquiry were interview and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) including 28 questions for evaluation of organic health, anxiety, sleeping, depression disorders, and social dysfunction. The association of demographic factors such as age, sex, marital status and educa­tional characteristics like course and level with GHQ score was studied. Findings : Out of 1797, 1328 (%74) and 469 (9626) were males and females respectively. Median age of subjects was 19 years and % 16 of those were married. Overall, %35/4 of stu­dents showed GHQ>23, of those 9631 /3 were boys and %36/3 girls (p=.03). The highest relative frequency of GHQ>23 was related to students of year 2005 (%45) and the least one was for 2002 (9630) (p=002). There was seen a significant association between GHQ levels and educational course where the highest percentage of GHQ level of >23 was belonged to students of Nursing & Midwifery (%42/2) and the lowest one was related to Public health course (96 33/4) (p=.04). No such a significant association was showed when the comparison was done within singular years. Conclusion : Our findings revealed that over one- third of new entering students during 5 years showed GHQ score of >23 for whom the specials supportive programmes should be con­sidered. Moreover, an increasing trend was shown in the frequency of GHQ level of >23 among new entering students from 2002 to 2007.