Health professions’ students have an alarming prevalence of depressive symptoms: exploration of the associated factors

Abstract Background There is a need to better understand the depression phenomenon and to clarify why some students become depressed and others don’t. The purpose of this study was to compare the prevalence of depressive symptoms among health professions’ (HP) students, and to explore the associatio...

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Main Authors: Eiad AlFaris, Farhana Irfan, Riaz Qureshi, Naghma Naeem, Abdulaziz Alshomrani, Gominda Ponnamperuma, Nada Al Yousufi, Nasr Al Maflehi, Mohammad Al Naami, Amr Jamal, Cees van der Vleuten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2016-10-01
Series:BMC Medical Education
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12909-016-0794-y