شيوع افسردگي در دانشجويان پرستاري و پزشكي دانشگاه علوم‌پزشكي هرمزگان‌

Depression in medical and nursing students, Bandar Abbas

Introduction: Depression is one of the most conunon psychiatric disorders that its prevalence has heen reponed to be 10-64% among university students. Tills study was performed [0 investigate the prevalence of depression factors in medical and nursing students ofHortnozgan University of Medical sciences in 2004-2005. Methods: In this descriptive study, 190medical and nursing snidents (with an equal proportion) in medical and nursing faculties of Bandar Abbas were selected randomly. The questionnaire which was designed in 2 parts was the way by which data was collected. The first pan included questions about the causesof depression and in the second part ʹBeckʹ depression test was used. Data were analysed by Chisquare test and P<0.05 was considered significant. Results: The results showed that the prevalence of depressionwas higheramong the nursing students (60%) than medical students (24.5%). The results showed that causes of depression in nursing students were significantly related to the birth order (P <0.04) and desire to study in their filed(P<0.01), but in medical students. causes of depressionweremostly related to marital status and psychoactive medications . Conclusiou: With regards to [he results of this research which indicates high prevalence of depression in students, it is necessitated to take appropriated measures to reduce the factors causing depression, and ultimately to prevent its consequences by prompt and on lime diagnosis.