Personality and mental health characteristics of junior medics
- VernacularTitle:低年级医学生的人格及心理卫生特征
- Author:
Ping YANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research
2005;9(8):234-235
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
BACKGROUND: Junior medic is a special population, which has high speciality and great pressure in study. To investigate the characteristics of personality and mental health of this population can explore the reasons of mental problems in junior medics, which can provide theoretic gist for the establishment of the intervention to improve the mental health of this population.OBJECTIVE: To provide approaches and methods for customized development of mental health education through the comprehension of the status of personality and mental health characteristics of junior medics.DESIGN: A stratified randomized cluster sampling survey.PARTICIPANTS: Totally 550 students of grade 1 and grade 2 in Harbin Medical University were selected by stratified randomized cluster sampling in the September 2004.METHODS: Self-rating depressive scale (SCL-90) and Eysenck personality questionnaire (EPQ) were independently answered by 550 students and taken back on the spot.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Key consequences: EPQ scores for extroversion(E), neuroticism(N), pschoticism(P), reliability(L) and the SCL-90 scores for somatization, compulsion, sensitive human relationship,depression, anxiety, hostility, phobia, crankiness and psychosis. Minor consequence: the statistical typical correlative analysis between total score and score of 9 items in SCL-90 and the scores of 4 scales in EPQ.RESULTS: Junior medics had significantly higher scores in compulsion (1.83 ±0.52), anxiety(1.47 ±0.43), psychosis(1.43 ±0.43), and crankiness(1.54 ± 0.55) than Chinese norm( t = 6. 57 -9.09, P ＜ 0. 05).The characteristics of personality were introversion, optimism, humility, and active. The shortcomings were anxiety, depression and emotional There was positive correlation between personality problem and the severity of mental problem in junior medics.CONCLUSION: The proportion of students with personality problems or mental health problems is relative high in junior medics. Effective interventions should be employed.
