Prevalence of common mental disorders in university students
Keywords:
mental health, anxiety, depression, somatization, Nursing students.Abstract
Introduction: Common mental disorders refer to a variety of non-psychotic mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, and somatic manifestations that are currently recognized as a public health problem due to the repercussions on the health of the people who suffer from them.Objective: To estimate the prevalence of common mental disorders among Nursing students at a public university in the Peruvian Amazon.
Method: The research approach was quantitative, the design, non-experimental and the type, descriptive - comparative cross-sectional. The population consisted of 321 students and the sample by 175 students who responded to the Self Reporting Questionnaire - SRQ 20, an instrument with adequate levels of validity and reliability. The data was processed through the SPSS version 25 software. For the analysis, descriptive statistics were used and to determine if the common mental disorders were associated with the proposed sociodemographic variables, the non-parametric Chi-Square test was used.
Results: The overall prevalence of common mental disorders was found to be 39.4 %. Likewise, it was determined that the prevalence was significantly associated with gender and the level of consumption of alcoholic beverages (p<0.05).
Conclusions: There is a moderate prevalence of common mental disorders in Peruvian Nursing students.
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Estrada-Araoz EG, Paricahua-Peralta JN, Paredes-Valverde Y, Quispe-Herrera R. Prevalence of common mental disorders in university students. Rev Cubana Med Milit [Internet]. 2023 Nov. 8 [cited 2025 Jan. 8];52(4):e02302968. Available from: https://revmedmilitar.sld.cu/index.php/mil/article/view/2968
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