The study of the rate of depression and its relation to kind of free time activity among the medical students

• Main Authors: A.A.Eslamei (M.Sc), M.A.Vakili (M.Sc), J.Faraji (M.Sc)
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Golestan University of Medical Sciences 2002-03-01
• Series: مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی گرگان
• Subjects: Depression; Leisure activities; Medical student; Beck depression inventory (B.D.I)
• Online Access: http://goums.ac.ir/journal/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-224&slc_lang=en&sid=1

The goal of this research is to study of the rate of depression and its relation to type of free time activities, among the medical students at Gorgan University of Medical Sciences in 1999-2000. In this study, 238 medical students (122 male & 116 female) were selected by non-randomized and easy sampling. They were tested by the Beck depression inventory, and a questionnaire due to incomplete information, 32 medical students (15 male & 17 female) were omitted. In general, the average of depressed females was lower than male students (BDI score of 10.2 against 10.9 respectively), but this difference wasn’t statistically significant. Based on this information, medical students had the lowest rate of leisure activities. 52.2% of males and 65.2% of females had not any special leisure activity. The results from this investigation indicate that there are some differences of free-time activities between male and female students. Mental relaxation was the main item among the list of free-time activities of medical students. Finally, we could not find any significant correlation between depression and the kind of leisure activities, which was the main concept in this study.