Alta proporción y factores asociados a depresión en estudiantes de medicina de una universidad, Honduras
Introduction: Depression is a common mental disorder and a leading cause of disability worldwide. Objective: To determine the prevalence of depression and related factors in me-dical students. Methods: quantitative, cross-sectional descriptive study with association analysis, in stu...
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| author | Ana Ligia Chinchilla Mejía Greybi Jackson Marisol Maradiaga Jorge Pineda Norman Gustavo Morales Jury Rosibeth Sánchez Reyes Sayda Lizeth Pejuán Uclés Mercedes Emelinda López Turcios Claudia Huete María Concepción Aguilar Isnaya Suyapa Nuila Zapata José Donaldo Sagastume Muñoz Manuel Antonio Sierra Santos |
| author_facet | Ana Ligia Chinchilla Mejía Greybi Jackson Marisol Maradiaga Jorge Pineda Norman Gustavo Morales Jury Rosibeth Sánchez Reyes Sayda Lizeth Pejuán Uclés Mercedes Emelinda López Turcios Claudia Huete María Concepción Aguilar Isnaya Suyapa Nuila Zapata José Donaldo Sagastume Muñoz Manuel Antonio Sierra Santos |
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| description | Introduction: Depression is a common mental disorder and a leading cause of disability worldwide. Objective: To determine the prevalence of depression and related factors in me-dical students. Methods: quantitative, cross-sectional descriptive study with association analysis, in students from second to seventh year of medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, National Autono-mous University of Honduras. The universe was 3928 students. The sampling was non-probabilistic by convenience; 282 students answered the evaluation instruments. The Beck Depression scale measured and classified the degree of depression. Results: The proportion of depression was 74% (CI 95%, 69-79). Among the participants, 31% (87) students have suicidal ideation and 6% (17) have attempted suicide. Factors that increased the risk of de-pression: being single 96.1% (OR = 4.0, CI 95%, 1.5-10.7); being economically dependent 82% (OR = 2.1, CI 95%, 1.1-3.8); female sex 68% (OR = 3.2, CI 95%, 1.8-5.6); having a family history of depression 52% (OR = 2. 0, CI 95%, 1.2-3.6); having suffered from violence 45% (OR = 3.1, CI 95%, 1.6-5.8); being affected by vio-lence 32% (OR = 4.4, CI 95%, 1.9-10.2); having been diagnosed with depression 21% (OR = 9.2, CI 95%, 2.2-39.0). Discussion: The results of this study show a high proportion of depression in this population, in comparison with similar studies that report 9.3-55.9%. This should be an alarm to expand research and generate strategies to prevent depression. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d381c512435d4cf599ee3aca90e807ff2025-08-20T02:37:09ZspaColegio Médico de HondurasRevista Médica Hondureña0375-11121995-70682024-12-0192210811410.5377/rmh.v92i2.19235Alta proporción y factores asociados a depresión en estudiantes de medicina de una universidad, HondurasAna Ligia Chinchilla Mejía0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9963-6575Greybi Jackson1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1558-4806Marisol Maradiaga2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6605-259XJorge Pineda3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3553-653XNorman Gustavo Morales4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3530-7673Jury Rosibeth Sánchez Reyes5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7997-6916Sayda Lizeth Pejuán Uclés6https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2534-585XMercedes Emelinda López Turcios7https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3106-7537Claudia Huete8https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3937-8620María Concepción Aguilar9https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1341-1226Isnaya Suyapa Nuila Zapata10https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6486-5471José Donaldo Sagastume Muñoz11https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6759-8938Manuel Antonio Sierra Santos12https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7684-8735Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Departamento de Ciencias Morfológicas; Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Secretaría de Salud de Honduras, Hospital Mario Mendoza; Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Departamento de Ciencias Morfológicas; Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Departamento de Ciencias Morfológicas; Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Departamento de Ciencias Morfológicas; Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Departamento de Ciencias Morfológicas; Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Departamento de Ciencias Morfológicas; Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Departamento de Ciencias Morfológicas; Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Departamento de Ciencias Morfológicas; Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Departamento de Ciencias Morfológicas; Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Departamento de Ciencias Morfológicas; Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Departamento de Ciencias Morfológicas; Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Departamento de Salud Pública. Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Introduction: Depression is a common mental disorder and a leading cause of disability worldwide. Objective: To determine the prevalence of depression and related factors in me-dical students. Methods: quantitative, cross-sectional descriptive study with association analysis, in students from second to seventh year of medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, National Autono-mous University of Honduras. The universe was 3928 students. The sampling was non-probabilistic by convenience; 282 students answered the evaluation instruments. The Beck Depression scale measured and classified the degree of depression. Results: The proportion of depression was 74% (CI 95%, 69-79). Among the participants, 31% (87) students have suicidal ideation and 6% (17) have attempted suicide. Factors that increased the risk of de-pression: being single 96.1% (OR = 4.0, CI 95%, 1.5-10.7); being economically dependent 82% (OR = 2.1, CI 95%, 1.1-3.8); female sex 68% (OR = 3.2, CI 95%, 1.8-5.6); having a family history of depression 52% (OR = 2. 0, CI 95%, 1.2-3.6); having suffered from violence 45% (OR = 3.1, CI 95%, 1.6-5.8); being affected by vio-lence 32% (OR = 4.4, CI 95%, 1.9-10.2); having been diagnosed with depression 21% (OR = 9.2, CI 95%, 2.2-39.0). Discussion: The results of this study show a high proportion of depression in this population, in comparison with similar studies that report 9.3-55.9%. This should be an alarm to expand research and generate strategies to prevent depression.https://www.camjol.info/index.php/RMH/article/view/19235depressionhondurasmedical studentsproportion |
| spellingShingle | Ana Ligia Chinchilla Mejía Greybi Jackson Marisol Maradiaga Jorge Pineda Norman Gustavo Morales Jury Rosibeth Sánchez Reyes Sayda Lizeth Pejuán Uclés Mercedes Emelinda López Turcios Claudia Huete María Concepción Aguilar Isnaya Suyapa Nuila Zapata José Donaldo Sagastume Muñoz Manuel Antonio Sierra Santos Alta proporción y factores asociados a depresión en estudiantes de medicina de una universidad, Honduras Revista Médica Hondureña depression honduras medical students proportion |
| title | Alta proporción y factores asociados a depresión en estudiantes de medicina de una universidad, Honduras |
| title_full | Alta proporción y factores asociados a depresión en estudiantes de medicina de una universidad, Honduras |
| title_fullStr | Alta proporción y factores asociados a depresión en estudiantes de medicina de una universidad, Honduras |
| title_full_unstemmed | Alta proporción y factores asociados a depresión en estudiantes de medicina de una universidad, Honduras |
| title_short | Alta proporción y factores asociados a depresión en estudiantes de medicina de una universidad, Honduras |
| title_sort | alta proporcion y factores asociados a depresion en estudiantes de medicina de una universidad honduras |
| topic | depression honduras medical students proportion |
| url | https://www.camjol.info/index.php/RMH/article/view/19235 |
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