Background: Mental illness also known as mental health disorders refers to a wide range of problems that affects mood, thinking, and day-to-day behavior. Examples of such mental health problems are depression, anxiety, stress, schizophrenia, eating disorders, and addictive behavior. We have analyzed the prevalence of certain illnesses in medical students. Students have been affected by many mental health disorders such as stress, anxiety, depression, etc, so analysis of their occurrence percentage in the first, second, and third year of M.B.B.S students.
Objective: To observe the level of depression and compare it between different years. To observe the level of anxiety and compare it between different years. To observe the level of stress and compare it between different years. Methodology: It’s a cross-sectional study and was done with help of google forms, responses from different medical colleges with the DASS21 scale are compared and analyzed between the first, second, and third years of medical students.
Results: Depression Level (mild, moderate, severe, extremely severe) of: 1st-year student is (23.52%) 2nd-year student is (11.11%) 3rd-year student is (5.88%). The anxiety Level (mild, moderate, severe, extremely severe) of the 1st-year student is(43.12%) the 2nd-year student is (61.11%) 3rd-year student is(47.05%). Stress Level (mild, moderate, severe, extremely severe) of 1st-year students is (21.56%) 2nd-year student is(11.11%) and 3rdyear student is(11.76%).
Conclusion: Depression level is more in 1st year than in 2nd year and least in 3rd year anxiety level: is more in 2nd year than in 3rd year and least in 1st-year stress level: is more in 1st year than in 3rd year and least in 2nd year.
