Journal of Depression and Anxiety
Open Access

Abstract

Prevalence Of Common Mental Disorder and Associated Factors Among Regular Undergraduate Students In Health Science College Of Mettu University, 2022

Abebayehu Meketa

Introduction: Common mental disorders are a set of distress expressing with anxiety, depressive, impulsiveness, eating disorder, suicide and other unexplained symptoms typically encountered in students exist in university. The internal and external factors like burden of education, environmental weather condition discomforted, family support problems (lack of enough financial support) having too much assignment, exams and other related works are affects the occurrence of common mental disorders. It used to determine the prevalence of CMD, explores the relationship between factors associated with it, and helps to raise awareness of the existing problem, helps family, teachers and the community to support students with CMD by providing different provisions. Methods and materials: Institution based cross sectional study design was conducted in Mettu University from April 15 to May 15, 2022 G.C. A total of 367 students were selected using stratified sampling technique and Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ) was used to determine the prevalence of common mental disorders. Finally, this data would entered and analyze by SPSS computer software application Results: Prevalence of common mental disorder among students was found to be 30.5%. In the multivariate analysis; participants who have chronic physical illness (AOR=2.82, 95% CI=1.122-7.086). Participants who were getting money from parents, one times per month (AOR=4.073, 95 CI=2.105-7.883). Respondents who didn’t use alcohols (AOR=0.67, 95% CI=0.385-0.943) were significantly associated. Conclusion: In this study, one third of health science students reported having common mental disorder confirming the presence of common mental disorder in health science students being high.

Published Date: 2025-01-16;