AIM: This study was conducted as (desciriptive) for the purpose to scanning psychiatric sypmtom and complaint conditions of nursing and health officer students studying in Medical School.
METHOD: The universe of this descriptive research included of 230 students at Denizli School of Health. All of the students were wanted to take part in our study, but 198 students accepted to take part in the questionnarie. The data collection tools used included a questionnaire to determine the students' descriptive characteristics and the " SCL-90R (Mental Symptom Scaning List) to determine the to evaluate mental symptoms and complaints of the students. In analysis of the data, percentage, average, student t test and one way anova tests were performed by means of SPSS 11.0 computer statistics program.
RESULTS: Students average of age is 20.75±2.18 and mental symptom level point average is 1.05 ±0.61. There were no significant difference statistically between ages, genders, class conditions and mental symptom level point average of the students (p>0.05). While mental symptom level point average of the students who have good relations with their parents is 0.97±0.56, that of those who have bad relations with their parents is 1.65±0.67.
CONCLUSION: Psychiatric symptom level point average of the students is 1.05 ±0.61. Statistically differences were found between students with communication features within the family and psychiatric symptoms level point average.
Key words: Student, School of Health, psychiatric symptoms Article Language: Turkish English
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