Abstract

GOMES, Carlos Fabiano Munir; PEREIRA JUNIOR, Ronaldo José; CARDOSO, Josiane Viana  and  SILVA, Daniel Augusto da. Common mental disorders in university students: epidemiological approach about vulnerabilities. SMAD, Rev. Eletrônica Saúde Mental Álcool Drog. (Ed. port.) [online]. 2020, vol.16, n.1, pp. 1-8. ISSN 1806-6976.  http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.1806-6976.smad.2020.157317.

OBJECTIVE: to identify the occurrence of mental disorders, common in students of a higher education institution and associate it with the socio demographic and academic caracteristics. METHOD: it´s a data survey, exploratory, descriptive, quantitativeve approach, made with 378 university students from an institution in the inner city of São Paulo, applying the Self-Reporting Questionnaire. The data was analysed using the descriptive statistical analysis and instructions for the analysis of the instrument used. RESULTS: 151 (39,9%) of the interviewed university students show a suspicious classification score for humor disorder, anxiety and somatization. Regarding the sociodemographic variables, the highest index was for women (43,7%), homosexuals (50,0%), black colored people (42,9%), in a stable union (50,0%). Regarding the academic variables, the highest index was between business administration students (57,5%), and morning shift students (44,0%). CONCLUSION: the need to planning prevention and recovery strategies related to the occurency of common mental disorders in these people is clear, in view of the vulnerability they are exposed.

Keywords : Mental Disorders; Students; Education, Higher; Epidemiology.

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