Dynamics of emotional disorders in students of medical university in the context of the covid-19 pandemic

Introduction: The covid-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on the mental health of the entire population. Objective(s): To determine the dynamics of emotional disorders in medical students in the context of the covid-19 pandemic. Method(s): Methods of research. An online survey of medical university students was conducted during the covid-19 pandemic. The Beck scale was used. Result(s): Results and its discussion. According to a dynamic study of emotional disorders in medical students, which was held during 12 months of covid-19 pandemic, emotional disturbance in the form of depressive manifestations associated with the covid-19 pandemic did not reduced. In addition, the results of the study indicated a change in the structure of depressive manifestations in the surveyed in favor of milder depressive manifestations (27.2%;24.0%) and a decrease in the prevalence of moderate and severe manifestations of depression (3.0%;5.3%). Conclusion(s): The long-covid pandemic has a negative effect on the mental health of medical students and lead to emotional disturbances in the form of depressive manifestations of varying severity. The compensatory possibilities of mental activity proceed unilaterally with a change in the structure of emotional disorders;adaptation to a stress factor is not formed.

Adjustment disorders in international students studying in English during a pandemic

The article presents a detailed study of clinical manifestations of adjustment disorders. The aim of our research to study the peculiarities of adjustment disorders of English speaking international students and to develop a system of its psychotherapeutic correction in a medical institution of higher education. The research methods: theoretical analysis and generalization of literature on the research topic, psychodiagnostic and mathematical-statistical methods. The study was conducted in the context in English speaking foreign students of reforming educational services in Ukrainian higher education institutions against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic and distance learning. The study based on 103 English speaking foreign students of III-Vth years of education in Kharkiv National Medical University, both sex (52 male and 51 female). The average age of the surveyed foreign students was 22.0 +/- 1.8 years. Foreign students were divided into three groups. The first group included 40 fourth-year students, the second group 40 third-year students, the third group consisted of 23 fifth-year students. The survey consisted of several stages and was conducted on-line. The first stage was carried out at the beginning of the quarantine, the second after 3 months. Psycho-corrective measures had a positive effect on the dynamics of mental state in 82.5 % of international students. In 68.7 % there was a reduction in maladaptation.