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KMID : 1007420140120020128
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Mood and Emotion
2014 Volume.12 No. 2 p.128 ~ p.136
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Depressive Symptoms among a Group of Medical Students : Prevalence, Related Factorsand Moderating Effect by the Positive Psychology
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Kim Sang-Hoon
Kim Jung-Ho
Jung Hyung-Shik
Park Jong-Chul
Kim Young-Shim
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Abstract
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Objectives : This study was undertaken to investigate the prevalence of depressive symptoms and their related factors among a group of medical students.
Method : A total of 874 (529 male and 345 female) medical students were randomly selected to participate in a survey. Depressive symptoms, satisfaction with life, health behavior including alcohol use, stress, sleep disturbance and happiness were collected using self-reported questionnaires.
Results : The prevalence of depressive symptoms was 10.8%. In stepwise multiple regression analysis, lower satisfaction of life, daytime dysfunction due to sleepiness, history of suicidal attempt, stress, sleep disturbance were found to be significant relating factors of depressive symptoms. In moderated regression analysis, the result showed that the impact of life stress were moderated by satisfaction of life on depressive symptoms, but the moderating effect of happiness was not significant.
Conclusion : This study showed considerably high prevalence of depressive symptoms and BDI score in medical students. The findings suggest that early detection of depressive symptoms and intensive mental health promotion program is needed in order to improve medical student’s mental health status.
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KEYWORD
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Medical students, Depressive symptoms, Prevalence, Related factors, Moderating effect
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