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dc.contributor.author | Sannia Perwaiz Iqbal | |
dc.contributor.author | Navaid Siddiqui | |
dc.contributor.author | Faryal Gul | |
dc.contributor.author | Sajid Abbass Jaffri | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-04T06:12:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-08-04T06:12:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-07-01 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2220-7562 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/15908 | |
dc.description.abstract | Objective: To determine the prevalence of anxiety and depression among medical students of Bahria University Health Sciences (BUHS) Study Design and Setting: Cross-Sectional survey conducted from January to June 2021 at BUHS, Karachi Methodology: Two hundred and sixty one medical students (79 male and 182 female), were assessed for anxiety and depression using Generalised Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7) and Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9) respectively. Chi Square test was used to check the association of anxiety and depression with gender and year of study. P-value =0.05 was considered significant. Results: Out of 261 participants, 76.8% of medical students had anxiety. Among them 21.1% had mild, 24.5% had moderate and 27.2% had severe anxiety. 83.5% of students had depression, of which 24.9% met the criteria for mild, 20.7% for moderate, 21.1% for moderate-severe and 16.9% students for severe depression. Chi Square test indicated significant associations between anxiety and gender, with 29.7% of female students having severe anxiety as compared to 21.5% of male students; and between depression and gender, with 24.1% male students having moderate depression as compared to 19.2% of female students. Both depression and anxiety were more prevalent among first year students with 31.7% students having depression and 27.5% having anxiety. Conclusion: Anxiety and depression were more prevalent among first year students with anxiety being more prevalent in female and depression being more prevalent in male students | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | JBUMDC | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Bahria University Medical and Dental College Karachi | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 13;03 | |
dc.subject | Anxiety, COVID-19, depression, medical students, pandemic | en_US |
dc.title | Anxiety and Depression among Medical Students of Karachi During the Covid-19 Pandemic | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |