Depressive Symptoms Among Medical Students

NCT ID: NCT03891836

Last Updated: 2019-03-27

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Total Enrollment

742 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-06-01

Study Completion Date

2020-06-30

Brief Summary

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Depression is a common mental disorder, people with depression feel sadness anxious, loss of interest or pleasure, hopeless, helpless, worthless feelings of guilt and poor concentration. It can impair person's ability to function at work or school, or cope with daily life. It can lead to suicide.

Detailed Description

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Depressive symptoms are higher among women and its prevalence among university students was reported to be higher than the general population .There are various risk factors of depressive symptoms among university students, lower socioeconomic status, poor academic performance, overweight, life stressors, family history of psychiatric disorders, sleeping problems, and exposure to patients' suffering. Several studies were conducted among medical students in different Egyptian Universities to detect prevalence of depressive symptoms which were 42.9% in Al-Azhar Uni-versity, Cairo, 60.8% in Fayoum University, 59.2% in Mansoura University and 57.9% in Alexandria University.

A sense of control means having a feeling of autonomy, of choosing how you spend your time, of doing your own work in your own way, which is a key component of happiness. Depressive symptoms more common in those who feel there is little they can do to change important things in their lives.

Medical education is considered stressful. Medical students have psychological and academic stressors during their revolution from insecure students to young knowledgeable physicians, which were determined to be associated with depressive symptoms and decrease the quality of life and academic achievements.

Conditions

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Depressive Symptoms

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

OTHER

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

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medical students

All students from the chosen classes in each study year will be invited to complete self-administered questionnaire

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

All Egyptian medical students at faculty of Medicine, Assiut University in the academic year 2018-2019

Exclusion Criteria

Non-Egyptian medical students
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

25 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Assiut University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Sara Medhat Soliman Gayed

Principle investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Sara Gayed

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Assiut University

Locations

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Assiut uiversity

Asyut, , Egypt

Site Status

Countries

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Egypt

Central Contacts

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Randa Shams-Eldin, Professor

Role: CONTACT

01066211997 ext. 002

Heba Mohammed, Lecturer

Role: CONTACT

010004574523 ext. 002

References

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Reference Type BACKGROUND

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Reference Type BACKGROUND

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Reference Type BACKGROUND

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Reference Type BACKGROUND

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Other Identifiers

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Students' depressive symptoms

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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