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Psychosocial Burdens among Medical StudentsOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Rate of suicide is in a sustained and marked increase from childhood to adulthood. A higher rate of non-lethal suicide attempts and even engagement in serious suicidal ideation is recently recorded. Since suicidal ideation is the first stage in the suicidal continuum, its discovery and assessment could definitely be of paramount importance in downsizing suicide prevalence among youth.
Engaging in suicidal behavior can affect all strata of the society, though it has been reported that the socioeconomically stressed categories are the ones most affected. Given this potential hazard of suicidal behaviors, an expanding body of research has been performed to examine the risk factors implicated in these behaviors. One risk factor that has been the subject of significant study in the literature is child maltreatment having said that, physicians, medical trainees and students in developing countries could be at potential risk of higher suicide rates than their peers of the general population.
Childhood maltreatment is defined as all forms of physical and/or emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, or commercial or other exploitation of children that results in actual or potential harm to a child’s health, survival, development, or dignity in the context of a relationship of responsibility, trust, or power. The estimation of the frequency and severity of child maltreatment is highly debatable worldwide; in addition, much of the violence against children is underestimated because of the fear and stigma that surrounds reporting these events along with the widely spread social acceptance of this type of violence.
The term Childhood Maltreatment encompasses four main types: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse (psychological abuse) and Neglect. In this perspective, it is worthwhile to note that it is very difficult to disentangle the consequences of different forms of maltreatment as each form can impose variable outcomes and the severity of the outcome may be intensified by the co-occurrence of different forms of child abuse. A dose-response relation was found between the number of types of maltreatment reported and mental health scores. Also, It was found that both physical and sexual abuse predicted later mental health problems.
This study aimed at measuring the prevalence of childhood adverse events and their possible relation with suicidal ideation among medical students in Egypt.
In this study, undergraduate medical students from Ain-Shams University were assessed using online survey tool uploaded on survey monkey. The survey consisted of 4 parts: questions to obtain socio-demographic data, GHQ-12, a self-administered version of the Childhood Experience of Care and Abuse questionnaire (CECA-Q) and lastly the 19 items from the self-administered version of Beck’s Scale for Suicidal Ideation scale (BSS).