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Analysis on mental health status of university freshmen in different administrative levels

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Journal Title:
JOURNAL OF THE FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
Issue:
6
DOI:
10.3321/j.issn:1000-2790.2002.06.001
Key Word:
大学;学生;精神卫生;universities;students;mental health

Abstract: AIM To study depression, anxiety and the mental health status of freshman majoring in mechanical engineering. METHODS Symptom Checklist 90(SCL-90), Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CED-S) were used as the tools to evaluate the mental health status of 353 students including technical secondary school students, junior college students, undergraduate course students and petty officer students. They were gathered and asked to fill in those questionnaires in 35 min. RESULTS Mental health status of students with different administrative levels was significantly different (P<0.05). The technical secondary school students had more frequency of SCL-90 positive indexes and depression. Of all the students, 21.6% to 44.6% had some positive mental symptoms; 13.7% to 35.7% had depression and students in the technical secondary school were more likely to suffer from depression and positive symptoms. Logistic regression showed that the possible risk factors for depression status (judged by CED-S total score exceed 20) were SAS standard total score (OR=2.1, 95.0%CI 1.4~3.3), the fourth index of SCL-90 (depression)score (OR=3.7, 95.0%CI 1.7~8.6), while the educational level of student's mother appeared as a possible protective factor (OR=0.6, 95.0%CI 0.39~0.95). CONCLUSION Depression, anxiety and other positive symptoms (obsession, relations with others) might be the main negative factors involving in students' mental health status. The significant difference of SCL-90 indexes,anxiety and depression in students with different administrative levels may be caused by their different abilities to adapt to a new environment. Educators should help students keep good mental status and adapt to the university life by using different methods towards students according to their administration level.

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