Association between risk factors for common mental disorders in physical therapy students

Abstract

Objectives. Relate the risk factors for common mental disorders in students from different periods of the Physiotherapy course belonging to teaching by active and traditional methodology. Method. This is an observational, descriptive and analytical cross-sectional study, in which 123 students of the Physiotherapy course participated, with the application of a sociodemographic questionnaire and the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20). Result. Seventy-two students enrolled in the active methodology (AM) and 51 still belonging to the traditional methodology (TM) participated in the study. Most students are brown, single and with a family income of 2 to 6 salaries, perform extracurricular activities, and a considerable number of students do not perform any leisure activity or practice physical activity. It was possible to observe that there were a large number of suspected cases of mental disorders (p=0.005). In both sexes it was possible to notice that those students who do not practice physical activity increase the chance of mental disorder by 2.85 times. Conclusion. It can be concluded that students who do not practice physical activity increase 2.85 times the chance of developing mental disorder. And when stratified by gender and teaching methodology, students belonging to the active methodology increase by 4.8 times the chance of developing mental disorder.