Trajectory of suicidal ideation among medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of childhood trauma.
BMC Psychiatry
; 23(1): 90, 2023 02 06.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2233664
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
The aim of this study was to understand the longitudinal trajectory of suicidal ideation (SI) among Chinese medical students and the role of childhood trauma (CT).METHODS:
Using a whole-group sampling method, we assessed SI in 2192 (male = 834, female = 1358) medical students on three occasions over a period of one year. The Suicidal Ideation Self-Assessment Scale (SISAS) and the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form (CTQ-SF) were used to assess SI and CT. The growth mixture modeling (GMM) was used to classify the developmental trajectory of SI.RESULTS:
A greater number of medical students were experiencing suicidal ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The trajectory of SI among medical students was divided into two groups a low risk, slowly rising group and a high risk, continuous group. The low risk, slowly rising group had a significant time effect (B = 1.57, p < 0.001) and showed a slowly increasing trend. Emotional neglect (EN), physical neglect (PN), emotional abuse (EA) and physical abuse (PA) all had significant positive predictive effects for the high risk, continuous group (B = 0.18-0.65, P < 0.01).CONCLUSION:
The trajectory of SI among medical students can be divided into a low risk, slowly rising group and a high risk, continuous group; the more EN, PN, EA and PA experienced during childhood, the more likely medical students are to develop a high risk, continuous state of SI.Keywords
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Students, Medical
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Adverse Childhood Experiences
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
BMC Psychiatry
Journal subject:
Psychiatry
Year:
2023
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S12888-023-04582-6
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