Depressive Symptoms Among Medical Students
Depressive Symptoms Among Medical Students
Depression is a common mental disorder, people with depression feel sadness anxious, loss of
 interest or pleasure, hopeless, helpless, worthless feelings of guilt and poor concentration.
 It can impair person's ability to function at work or school, or cope with daily life. It can
 lead to suicide.
Depressive symptoms are higher among women and its prevalence among university students was
 reported to be higher than the general population .There are various risk factors of
 depressive symptoms among university students, lower socioeconomic status, poor academic
 performance, overweight, life stressors, family history of psychiatric disorders, sleeping
 problems, and exposure to patients' suffering. Several studies were conducted among medical
 students in different Egyptian Universities to detect prevalence of depressive symptoms which
 were 42.9% in Al-Azhar Uni-versity, Cairo, 60.8% in Fayoum University, 59.2% in Mansoura
 University and 57.9% in Alexandria University.

 A sense of control means having a feeling of autonomy, of choosing how you spend your time,
 of doing your own work in your own way, which is a key component of happiness. Depressive
 symptoms more common in those who feel there is little they can do to change important things
 in their lives.

 Medical education is considered stressful. Medical students have psychological and academic
 stressors during their revolution from insecure students to young knowledgeable physicians,
 which were determined to be associated with depressive symptoms and decrease the quality of
 life and academic achievements.
Inclusion Criteria:

 All Egyptian medical students at faculty of Medicine, Assiut University in the academic
 year 2018-2019

 Exclusion Criteria:

 Non-Egyptian medical students