Open AccessDepression in Premedical Undergraduates
Author(s) -
Daniel Fang,
Christina B. Young,
Shahrokh Golshan,
Ian E. Fellows,
Christine Moutier,
Sidney Zisook
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
primary care companion to the journal of clinical psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1537-6699
pISSN - 1523-5998
DOI - 10.4088/pcc.10m00958blu
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , context (archaeology) , ethnic group , medicine , curriculum , mental health , quality of life (healthcare) , psychiatry , clinical psychology , family medicine , gerontology , psychology , nursing , paleontology , pedagogy , macroeconomics , sociology , anthropology , economics , biology
Medical students and residents are known to have high rates of depression, a common stress-related challenge that impairs quality of life and job satisfaction and predisposes those affected to general medical illness. Our primary hypothesis was that premedical students would exhibit greater depressive symptoms than nonpremedical students. A secondary aim was to explore the interactions of premedical student status with gender and ethnicity in the context of depression.