مرضيه مختاريپور, زهره گودرزي, علي سيادت, محمود كيوانآرا, Volume 5, Issue 2 (8-2007)
Abstract
Introduction : Anxiety and depression are two common psychiatric disorders which put heavy burdens on the societies. This study is aimed to assess anxiety, depression and some of their demographic correlates in Isfahan medical university students. Methods : This was a descriptive-analytic correlation study.The sample consisted of 200 students who had been randomly selected among all Isfahan medical university students in the 2006-2007 academic year. Kettles' anxiety questionnaire and Beck's depression inventory were used to assess anxiety and depression. Data were analysed using multiple regression analysis method. Findings : Academic achievement was found to be the only demographic variable which had a significant correlation with depression. The mean of academic average score, the medical course of study and the female gender were found to be positively and significantly correlated with the rate of anxiety, while the socio-economic status was shown to be negatively so. Discussion : Studying medicine inevitably requires a constant engagement with the people’s pain and suffering, as well as a hard work, along term duration of study in the university and taking part in several hard standard examinations. Medial students are potentially vulnerable to anxiety as a result of their apprehension about their academic achievement and also to depression as a result of the potential academic failures. Attention should be paid toward the mental health in this talented and vulnerable student group. Key Words : Anxiety, Depression, Medical, Student, Demographic
Aim and Background: The attendances a child with intellectual disabilities in each family impress their structure and mental health, particularly mothers. Thus, the aim of this study was to compare the effect of chronic sorrow and feelings of entrapment in mothers that have children with intellectual disabilities and without, in Kashan 2017-2018. Methods and Materials: This study was a causal-comparative study, and its statistical population include all mothers of disabled and non-disabled children, in exceptional and normal schools in Kashan. The sample consist 66 mothers (31 mothers of children with intellectual disabilities and 35 mothers of non-disabled children), which were selected mothers of children with intellectual disability, by available sampling method and mothers of non-disabled children by multistage random sampling. To measure information, were used Kendall's Chronic Sorrow Instrument (KCSI) and entrapment questionnaire. The method of analysis was descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (multivariate analysis of variance). Findings: The results showed the significance difference between the feeling of chronic sorrow and feelings of entrapment in mothers of children with intellectual disabilities and without, in Kashan (p=.0001) and mothers of children with intellectual disabilities have chronicle chronic sorrow and feelings of entrapment more. Conclusions: Regarding the negative effects of two chronic sorrow and feelings of entrapment in mental health, it is necessary to provide psychological services to mothers of mentally disabled children.
