Medicine, Health & Food
Volume: 154 , Issue: 1 , August Published Date: 15 August 2024
Publisher Name: IJRP
Views: 40 , Download: 34 , Pages: 213 - 221
DOI: 10.47119/IJRP1001541820247071
Publisher Name: IJRP
Views: 40 , Download: 34 , Pages: 213 - 221
DOI: 10.47119/IJRP1001541820247071
Authors
| # | Author Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | Alaa Bannaga Alataya Ahmed |
| 2 | Ensa Jaffer Yousif |
| 3 | Shahad Motwkel Ahmed |
| 4 | Sohila Khider |
| 5 | Bahga Hamed |
| 6 | Hassan I. Osman |
Abstract
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has created a mental health crisis among medical students in Sudan due to lockdown restrictions, overwhelming numbers of COVID-19 cases, financial difficulty, etc. This mental health crisis may have led to high degrees of depression among medical students. Methods: This cross-sectional institutional-based study was conducted at Napata College-Sudan during period September 2020 to September 2021 by using a questionnaire. The questionnaire included a sociodemographic questionnaire and psychometric Depression scales evaluating the psychological Depression impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, both qualitative and quantitative analyses were performed in the study. Results: A total of 174 medical students participated in this study, of whom 66%were females. After assessment of the psychometric Depression scales, it was found that more than half of our participants were found to have depression due to COVID 19 pandemic with different scales ranging from mild depression (38%) to severe (5%) using Becks test. Among the identified risk factors were having a family member who was infected with COVID-19. Conclusions: This research concludes that there is high incidence depression symptoms rate of COVID-19 among medical students.