Prevalence and Factors Associated with Poor Mental Health of Undergraduate Students in Nakhon Ratchasima Rajabhat University: A Cross-sectional Study

Thitikan Boonraksa Intapaj — 2024-04-23

Objective: The study aimed to investigate the prevalence of mental health and depression and factors associated with mental health of undergraduate students in Nakhon Ratchasima Rajabhat University

Materials and methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted to collect data from February to Aprill 2022. Online questionnaires used included (1) the general data questionnaire (2) the Thai mental health indicator: TMHI-15, and (3) the center for epidemiological studies-depression scale: CES-D. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, chi-square test, and logistic regression analysis with a significance level of 0.05

Results: The findings showed that the prevalence of poor mental health of undergraduate students at Nakhon Ratchasima Rajabhat University was 78 (10.68%) from 730 people, and the response rate was 85.08. The prevalence of severe depression was 50 (64.10 %), and the moderate depression was 27 (34.60%). Factors related to mental health included having a congenital disease, living alone, having friends living together, good relationships with others and depression.

Conclusion: The prevalence of poor mental health of undergraduate students at Nakhon Ratchasima Rajabhat University was 10.68 %, and the prevalence of severe depression was 64.10 %. University should proactively provide services to promote mental wellbeing, and raise awareness of mental health for students and university personnel.

PREDICTING CORRELATION OBESITY AMONG PEOPLE WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA ON THE POWER OF PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS, NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS, POSITIVE SYMPTOMS, AND STRESS

Nisanart Thongbai — 2024-04-26

Objectives: To study the correlation prediction of psychiatric drugs, negative symptoms, positive symptoms, and stress on obesity among people with schizophrenia.

Materials and methods: The samples of this predictive correlational research consisted of 123 patients who had been diagnosed by doctors as having schizophrenia (F20) based on ICD-10 diagnostic criteria, had been receiving continuous antipsychotic medication for six months or more, were aged between 18 and 60 years, and were not in the acute phase of severe schizophrenia at the outpatient department of a hospital in Nakhon Sawan province. Data were collected using a demographic questionnaire, an obesity assessment form, the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), and the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS10). Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics and multiple logistic regression analysis.

Results: The findings revealed that 59.3 percent of the samples were obese. The multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that the factors predicting the relationship with obesity occurrence in schizophrenic patients, statistically significant at the 0.05 level, were positive symptoms (β = -.548, OR .578, 95%CI = .469 - .713, p < 0.05) and negative symptoms (β = .483, OR 1.620, 95%CI = 1.361 – 1.929, p < 0.05)

Conclusion: Schizophrenia patients are often overweight. Therefore, providing information on managing both negative and positive symptoms of mental health patients can be a strategy to reduce risk factors for obesity, which may lead to the development of a set of symptoms known as metabolic syndrome.

Academic Psychiatry and Psychology Journal

Prevalence and Factors Associated with Poor Mental Health of Undergraduate Students in Nakhon Ratchasima Rajabhat University: A Cross-sectional Study

PREDICTING CORRELATION OBESITY AMONG PEOPLE WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA ON THE POWER OF PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS, NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS, POSITIVE SYMPTOMS, AND STRESS