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Date Published: 13/01/2022
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51298/vmj.v509i2.1814
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Vol. 509 No. 2 (2021)
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Thị Vũ Huyền, L. . (2022). DEPRESSION ASSESSED BY DASS 21 SCALE AMONG FIRST YEAR MEDICAL DOCTOR STUDENTS AT HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY IN THE 2020-2021 ACADEMIC YEAR AND SOME ASSOCIATED FACTORS. Vietnam Medical Journal, 509(2). https://doi.org/10.51298/vmj.v509i2.1814

DEPRESSION ASSESSED BY DASS 21 SCALE AMONG FIRST YEAR MEDICAL DOCTOR STUDENTS AT HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY IN THE 2020-2021 ACADEMIC YEAR AND SOME ASSOCIATED FACTORS

Lê Thị Vũ Huyền1,
1 Hanoi Medical University

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The study aimed to determine the proportion of students experiencing depression and some factors related to depression among first-year medical doctor students at Hanoi Medical University in the academic year 2020-2021. We conducted a cross-sectional study on 345 students and used the DASS 21 scale to assess the level of depression among students. Our results showed that 52,8% of students had depression (20.6% with mild depression, 18.6% with moderate depression, 6.7% with severe depression, 7.0% with very severe depression). Factors associated with depression among first-year medical students included dissatisfaction with appearance,financial difficulties, exercise, conflicts with roommates, reduced self-health, serious illness injury, a serious illness in the family, poor grades wait, adjust to studying at university

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depression, first-year medical doctor students, factors related

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