Prevalence of depression amongst medical students: a meta-analysis.

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Medical schools are known to be stressful environments for students and hence medical students have been believed to experience greater incidences of depression than others. We evaluated the global prevalence of depression amongst medical students, as well as epidemiological, psychological, educational and social factors in order to identify high-risk groups that may require targeted interventions.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Med Educ

Title: Medical education

ISSN (Electronic): 1365-2923

ISSN (Print): 0308-0110

Publication date (Electronic): Apr 2016

Volume: 50

Issue: 4

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[1 ] Department of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.

[2 ] Department of General and Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, Singapore.

[3 ] Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.

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DOI: 10.1111/medu.12962

PubMed ID: 26995484

SO-VID: 8103d2d4-b3e3-4ed5-808d-be5d0d2484c1

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