Analysis on mental health status among new medical polytechnic students

Objective To know the mental health status among new students in medical technique school in order to provide the theoretical basis formental health education implemented by the related departments in the school.Methods Tests were conducted with the Symptom Checklist 90(SCL-90) in 580 new students in medical technique school and compared with domestic younger and college student norms.Comparison was made between different genders and different places where the students came.Results(1) The factor scores of obsessive compulsive,phobia were significantly higher(p0.01) and psychoticism were higher(p0.05)among new students in polytechnic school than the domestic younger norms.(2)The factor scores of somatization,interpersonal sensitivity,depression,hostility and paranoia were lower than the norms(p0.01).(3)Except phobia all other factor scores of SCL-90 were lower among new students than the college student norms(p0.01).(4) There were no significant differences in the mental health status between sexes.The factor scores of anxiety,depression and phobia were higher in female polytechnic students than in male students(p0.05).(5)The mental health status among students from town was obviously better than the students from countryside(p0.05),and the factor scores of interpersonal sensitivity and psychoticism were higher in the students from town than in the students from the countryside(p0.05).Conclusions Change of environment,genders and the difference between town and rural place are the important reasons of the mental problems among the students.Corresponding strategy should be used to do psychological intervention in order to improve the mental health level of polytechnic students in schools.