WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

Alhanoof Abdulhakeem Hazazi, Alaa sami Khwiter, Deema Ghalib Almutairi, Wedd Ahmad Alnufaiee, Nouf Fahad Abdulwahed, *Aseel Ghassan Odeh, Salma Sultan Alhajri, Mai Fahad Alassaf, Almaha Bassam Albalawi and Asmaa faisal Alabbadi

ABSTRACT

The mental health of prospective medical students has been associated with ethnic group, extracurricular activity, parents? educational level and previous academic achievement in some studies but not in others. Depression is a common mental disorder that causes people to experience depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, low energy, and poor concentration. The stresses that begin in medical school tend to continue throughout the years of practicing medicine. The findings of the study will help provide predictors that can be modified in order to prevent or minimize such mental disorders among them. The aim of study is to Identify the common mental health disorders among medical students in Almaarefa colleges for science and technology (MCST) in Al-Diriya. This study will be of an observational descriptive cross- sectional design. The data will be collected from 255 medical students excluded the preparatory year students by non-probability quota sampling technique. It will be an electronic questionnaire prepared especially for it, written in English. The link will be distributed via MCST Moodle. It is constructed of 4 sections, first section is about demographic data, the second is about depression which includes patient health questionnaire PHQ-9, the third is about anxiety westside test and the fourth section which is about eating disorders, SCOFF testing scale was used. All data will be cleaned, coded, entered and analyzed using PSPP. The results will be expressed in tables and graphs as frequencies and percentages. Suitable statistical tests will be used, confidentiality will be intact.

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