STUDY TO EVALUATE ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION AMONG STUDENTS OF A MEDICAL COLLEGE IN LAHORE, PAKISTAN

Objective : To evaluate predominance of uneasiness and dejection among restorative understudies in a Services Institute Of Medical Sciences lahore Techniques : A cross-sectional investigation was done on premedical, first, second and third year understudies of Services Institute of Medical Sciences Lahore, The instrument used to survey the tension and despondency was Self managed poll, The Aga Khan University Anxiety and Depression Scale (AKUADS). AKUADS is a screening instrument, and at a cut off purpose of 19, it has a Specificity of 81%, Sensitivity of 74%, a Positive Predictive Value of 63% and Negative Predictive Value of 88%. Information examination was done on Epi Info form 6. Results : At the season of the investigation there were a sum of 288 male understudies and 105 female understudies tried out the school. The general reaction rate among the guys and females were 68.7% and 99.0% individually. In general the pervasiveness of nervousness and discouragement in females were 66.6% and guys 44.4% (p-esteem 0.01). In the first year the commonness in females were 89.7% and guys 60% (P-Value = 0.006). No self-destructive ideation was accounted for by either guys or females. End : Almost comparative dimension of nervousness and dejection was found in another investigation utilizing a similar instrument in a comparative educational modules model therapeutic school in Pakistan. Our discoveries are likewise predictable with the discoveries from different investigations from western therapeutic schools just as other Asian and African medicinal schools utilizing distinctive screening devices