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Dynamics of emotional disorders in students of medical university in the context of the covid-19 pandemic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2022

T. Mozgova*
Affiliation:
KNMU, Psychiatry, Kharkiv, Ukraine
I. Leshchyna
Affiliation:
KNMU, Psychiatry, Kharkiv, Ukraine
I. Tieroshyna
Affiliation:
KNMU, Psychiatry, Kharkiv, Ukraine
H. Kozhyna
Affiliation:
KNMU, Psychiatry, Kharkiv, Ukraine
S. Fedorchenko
Affiliation:
KNMU, Neurology, Kharkiv, Ukraine
L. Gaichuk
Affiliation:
KNMU, Psychiatry, Kharkiv, Ukraine
K. Zelenska
Affiliation:
KNMU, Psychiatry, Kharkiv, Ukraine
I. Strelnikova
Affiliation:
KNMU, Psychiatry, Kharkiv, Ukraine
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

The covid-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on the mental health of the entire population.

Objectives

To determine the dynamics of emotional disorders in medical students in the context of the covid-19 pandemic.

Methods

Methods of research. An online survey of medical university students was conducted during the covid-19 pandemic. The Beck scale was used.

Results

Results and its discussion. According to a dynamic study of emotional disorders in medical students, which was held during 12 months of covid-19 pandemic, emotional disturbance in the form of depressive manifestations associated with the covid-19 pandemic did not reduced. In addition, the results of the study indicated a change in the structure of depressive manifestations in the surveyed in favor of milder depressive manifestations (27.2%; 24.0%) and a decrease in the prevalence of moderate and severe manifestations of depression (3.0%; 5.3%).

Conclusions

The long-covid pandemic has a negative effect on the mental health of medical students and lead to emotional disturbances in the form of depressive manifestations of varying severity. The compensatory possibilities of mental activity proceed unilaterally with a change in the structure of emotional disorders; adaptation to a stress factor is not formed. Disclosure of interest.– The authors have not supplied a conflict of interest statement.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the European Psychiatric Association
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