A cohort study of relationship between personality dysfunction and mental status among freshmen / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Objectives: To explore the effect of personality dysfunction on freshmen's mental status. Methods:Cohort study design was applied in the study. Exposure factors were personality dysfunction and intervention. The mental health status of 2516 freshmen was evaluated by Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90), Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) and Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS). Relative risk (RR) and attributive risk (AR) were calculated to test the relationship between exposure factors and mental health status. Results: Cohort study showed that RRs of all types of personality dysfunction history in senior high schools developing mental symptoms in the freshman year were between 1. 980 to 10. 167. Interventions to personality dysfunction during high schools had protective effect to the development of mental symptoms. Conclusion: Personality dysfunction isa risk factor of mental symptoms of freshmen. Early intervention could decrease the risk of the mental symptoms.