Comparison of depression in medical and non-medical students based on lifestyle

Masoumeh Karimzadeh¹

1) Master of Psychology, Counselor, Moallem High School, District 1, Bandar Abbas

IOI Code : XEBA-GKCBE
Publication : Second National Conference on Futurism in Psychology and Educational Sciences(femconf.ir)
Abstract :
    The main purpose of this study was to compare the rates of depression in medical and non-medical students based on lifestyle. The research method is descriptive-correlational in nature and applied in terms of purpose. The statistical population of the study includes all medical and non-medical students of Hormozgan University in 2018 and the data collection tool is a questionnaire. The available sampling method was used to select a statistical sample that a total of 80 medical and non-medical students provided the data of this study. SPSS software was used to analyze the data. First, analysis of variance and F-test were used to compare the depression between the two groups, and Pearson test and linear regression were used to check the correlation. The results show that there is no difference in terms of depression for non-medical and medical disciplines to examine the relationship between levels of depression and lifestyles of four levels of depression, which are normal depression, mild depression, moderate depression, severe depression and three lifestyle levels. These are low lifestyle, medium lifestyle and high lifestyle. The results show that: 1. There is a relationship between normal depression and low and medium lifestyles.2. There is only a relationship between mild depression and low lifestyles. There is only one relationship between moderate depression and high lifestyle.4. There is only one relationship between severe depression and a high lifestyle.

Keywords : depression lifestyle medical students non medical students