Journal
MEDICAL EDUCATION
Volume 36, Issue 1, Pages 66-72Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2002.01104.x
Keywords
adaptation, psychological; anxiety/epidemiology; Brazil; depression/epidemiology; education, medical; hospitals, teaching; seasonal variations; sex factors
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Objective To perform a screening, follow-up and comparative evaluation of depression and anxiety symptoms in a group of 59 first-year internal medicine residents of a teaching hospital and evaluate the influence of their rotation, nature of rotation, subgroup, sex and the time of year on these symptoms. Methods We used the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), applied seven times, in the last week of every rotation. Results and conclusion We obtained two identical averages (P=0.98) of trait-anxiety, six months apart one from the other. There was a significant correlation (R=0.65, P<0.001) between the indexes of state-anxiety and depression. Women had higher levels of symptoms of both anxiety and depression (P<0.001) compared to men. A cluster of three subgroups of residents with higher trait-anxiety levels (P=0.001) also showed significantly higher levels of symptoms of state-anxiety and depression (P<0.001). The time of the year and the nature of the rotation (emergency or not) did not interfere with the levels of depression (P=0.47). We detected rotations where there was greater frequency of residents with symptoms compatible with moderate and severe depression. There were 2.1% of residents with symptoms compatible with severe, 4.2%. with moderate and 27% with mild depression. It was possible to graduate symptoms of anxiety and depression in residents, evaluate factors involved in their genesis and locate residents with moderate and severe depression.
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