Investigation and analysis of mental health state in 261 nursing students for practice interview

【Objective】 To understand the mental health state of nursing students for clinical practice interview.【Methods】 Self-report symptom checklist 90 was used to investigate 261 nursing students for clinical practice interview from three medical universities in the city of Sichuan Province.【Results】 The SCL-90 total score and the scores of such factors as somatization,interpersonal sensitivity,depression,hostility and paranoid ideation of the nursing students for clinical practice interview were significantly lower than that of national norm(P 0.01),only the score of psychoticism significantly higher than that of national norm(P =0.01).The SCL-90 total score,positive items and the scores of such factors as depression,anxiety,somatization and hostility of the students from university 3 were significantly higher than that of the students from university 2(P 0.05,P 0.01).The scores of such factors as interpersonal sensitivity,depression,hostility and terror of the students without siblings were significantly lower than that of the ones with siblings(P 0.05,P 0.01).There were no significant differences in all scores between students with different educational background and between the students from city and those from country.【Conclusion】 The mental health state of the investigated nursing students is good.The mental health state of the students without siblings is better than that of the ones with siblings.The students from different university may be in different mental health state.