DEPRESSION, ANXIETY AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

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• Abstract:

  Objective: This is a systematic review that seeks to establish main risk factors for depression and anxiety among medical students. Search methods: The literature research was performed in PubMed Central: PMC database with the search algorithm “anxiety” AND “depression” AND “medical students”. The following filters were used: human research AND articles published in the last 10 years. We applied no language restrictions.

  Selection and Exclusion criteria: We included 30 studies that approached anxiety and depression among medical students and excluded those which did not.Data collection and analysis: Articles were independently reviewed according to elegibility criteria, and data were extracted and synthetsized by 4 researchers in a table. Conclusion: We concluded that intense academic demand and stress are the main risk factors for developing of depression and anxiety in medical students, increasing their prevalence in this specific population and may be associated with other psycological disorders.

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