SINTOMAS DE DISTÚRBIOS PSÍQUICOS MENORES EM ESTUDANTES DE ENFERMAGEM

Abstract

Objective: to describe the frequency and symptoms for detecting minor psychiatric disorders (MPD) in undergraduate nursing students. Method: a descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with 149 undergraduate nursing students from a community university in the south of Brazil. Data were collected in 2015, by means of a self-administered instrument, containing sociodemographic, work-, habit- and health-related variables and the Self-Reporting Questionnaire-20. Results: the frequency of MPD in the undergraduates was 67.8%. The questions that were most frequently answered affirmatively were: feeling nervous, tense or worried (81.9%); frequently having headaches (68.5%); having poor sleep (58.4%); easily getting tired (61.7%); and having difficulty thinking clearly (51%). Conclusions: there was a predominance of somatic and depressive-anxious mood symptoms, which suggests the possibility that the undergraduates’ mental health was compromised. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]