Prevalence of depression symptons in students from 1st to 6th year of medicine from a faculty of Tocantins, Brazil
International Journal of Development Research
Prevalence of depression symptons in students from 1st to 6th year of medicine from a faculty of Tocantins, Brazil
Received 9th November, 2020; Received in revised form 15th November, 2020; Accepted 20th November, 2020; Published online 25th November, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Isabella Dutra Marcarini, Felipe César Aquino Ramos da Silveira and Denise Ramos Costa. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Mood disorders are persistent emotions that influence a person's behavior. They are an important category of psychiatric illnesses, the most prevalent of them is depressed mood disorder, which causes great psychological distress and impairs academic and social performance. This study aims to assess the prevalence of symptoms of depression in medical students from different periods, from the 1st to the 6th year of graduation, through the application of self-administered and anonymous questionnaires to the research participants, including a socio-demographic questionnaire and Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI). Results have shown that the prevalence found in the studied population was 46.1%, and the 1st year of the basic cycle showed a greater chance of developing depressive symptoms. As factors that increase the risk of developing the condition, relevant differences were found between the participants who do not practice regular physical activity and those who had to change their residence, mainly from another state, to start their medical degree.
