Study On Anxiety And Its Influential Factors Among The Undergraduates In A Medical University

Objective This study examines the status of anxiety and its influential factors among undergraduates of a medical university,in order to provide evidence for early intervention of mental health.Methods We selected 8459 students of the medical university as the subjects.Data were collected by using the Beck Anxiety Inventory,the fife events Scale,the Family APGAR Index,the quality of life Scale and the Social Support Scale.Multivariable ordinal logistic regression were employed to explore influential factors of anxiety;the dependent variable was anxiety classification;the independent variables were negative life events,family function,quality of life,social support,and the demegraphic characteristics,such as gender,age,family economic status,et al.Results Eleven point five percent(11.5%) of medical undergrad uates were anxious. The prevalence of anxiety among female students was higher than that among male students and with significant difference.There were significant associations with anxiety among grade,economic condition of the family,satisfaction of your,parents' status and religion faith,rather than age,profession,student category,nation,source of medical treatment and habitation modus.It was also indicated that anxiety was related to negative life events,quality of life,social support,and family function.Multivariable ordinal logistic regression revealed that quality of life,negative life events,social support,family function,gender and religion faith entered regression equation.It was more likely to have anxiety in female and religious believer.Students who had severely negative life events,poor quality of life,less social support or family dysfunction were more vulnerable to anxiety.Conclusions The anxiety prevalence among medical students was significant different between gender.Negative life events possibly play important role in occurrence of anxiety.To promote the students' healthy development,we should pay more attention to anxiety and carry out kinds of preventive measures to decrease the incidence of anxiety.