Factors associated to depression and anxiety in medical students: a multicenter study

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Fernanda Brenneisen Mayer · Universidade de São Paulo

Itamar S Santos · Universidade de São Paulo

Paulo Sérgio Panse Silveira · Universidade de São Paulo

Maria Helena Itaqui Lopes · Universidade de Caxias do Sul

Alicia Regina Navarro Dias de Souza · Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Eugenio Paes Campos · Centro Universitário Serra dos Órgãos

Benedita Andrade Leal de Abreu

Abstract

The factors associated with the increase of medical students' depression and anxiety symptoms were female sex, school location and tuition scholarship. It is interesting that tuition scholarship students showed state-anxiety, but not depression and trait-anxiety symptoms.

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Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout Medical Education and Admissions Innovations in Medical Education

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Published in: BMC Medical Education

Volume 16, Issue 1, pp. 282-282

DOI: 10.1186/s12909-016-0791-1

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Factors associated to depression and anxiety in medical students: a multicenter study

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