Characteristics and factors associated with disorders of the mental sphere in medical students of the coast, mountains and Peruvian jungle

• Autores: Díaz-Quiquia, Vasti, López K., Joe, De Souza-Arruda, Jair, Díaz C., Rosita, Mejía A., Christian
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad Continental
• Repositorio: CONTINENTAL-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.continental.edu.pe:20.500.12394/10026
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12394/10026; http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-92272020000300230
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Estudiantes de Medicina; Trastornos de la personalidad; Salud mental; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.02.02

Introduction: The disorders of the mental sphere are increasingly frequent, these should be measured in students who are under great pressure and according to the place of influence. Objectives: To determine the characteristics and factors associated with disorders of the mental sphere in medical students of the coast, mountains and Peruvian jungle. Methodology: A preliminary analytical cross-sectional study was carried out, through the application of the Millon Multiaxial Clinical Inventory (MCMI-II), to 105 students, said survey measured the different disorders of the mental sphere; to which they were associated with socio-educational variables. Results: Large percentages of respondents had compulsivity (29%) and high narcissism (28%). In the multivariate analysis it was found that women had a lower frequency of schizoid disorder (p = 0.027); as age increased there was also a higher frequency of avoidance disorders (p = 0.049) and anxiety (p = 0.043); the higher the academic year, the lower the frequency of dilution disorder (p = 0.010); the students of the Universidad de la Sierra had more narcissism (p = 0.011), compulsivity (p = 0.018) and paranoid (p = 0.041); the students of the jungle university had more aggressive-sadistic (p = 0.021), narcissism (p = 0.020) and compulsivity (p = 0.005); These last two were compared versus those studying on the coast.