Investigation on mental health of general practice students in a medical school in Jiangsu Province / 中华全科医师杂志

ABSTRACT

A survey on mental health status was conducted during October 2021 to January 2022 among grade 2017—2021 medical students majored in general practice who received 3+2-year education integrated undergraduate study and residency training for assistant physicians in a medical school in Jiangsu province. The SCL-90 and the self-made scale were used to investigate the mental health status and the results were compared with the national norm, the norm of national physicians, and the norm of medical students in Jiangsu province. A total of 125 valid questionnaires were recovered, and the positive detection rate of SCL-90 scale was 17.6%. Compared with the national norm in 2015, the scores of forcing ( t=-2.47), the interpersonal sensitivity ( t=-2.00), the hostile ( t=-2.65), the paranoid( t=-3.14) and the psychiatric factor( t=-2.45) of the study group were significantly lower than those of the norm ( P<0.05). Compared with the norm of national physicians and the norm of medical students in Jiangsu province, the scores of all the items except the fear factor were lower than those of the norms ( P<0.05). In the study group there were no significant differences in the total score and all factors among students with different genders, different training stages, and different background. The total score of SCL-90 scale was negatively associated with the study performance and clinical skill mastery ( r=-0.18) and the sense of achievement ( r=-0.23, P<0.05). The study shows that the mental health status of this group of students is generally better than that of the several norms.