Clinical trial NCT03891836: Depressive Symptoms Among Medical Students
Official title: Prevalence and Correlates of Depressive Symptoms Among Assiut University Medical Students
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Depressive Symptoms
Lead sponsor: Assiut University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-03-27
Enrollment: 742
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 25
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Egyptian students registered at faculty of Medicine, Assiut University in the academic year 2018-2019

Brief summary: 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: 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.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

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

Exclusion Criteria:

Non-Egyptian medical students

Primary outcomes:
measure: prevalence of depressive symptoms among medical students by patient health questionnaire-9
timeFrame: one year
measure: social class of the student by family affluence sale III (FAS-III)
timeFrame: one year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: sense of control by MIDI scale
timeFrame: one year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Assiut
country: Egypt
facility: Assiut uiversity
Study officials:
affiliation: Assiut University
name: Sara Gayed
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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