Medical Student Quality of Life and Mental Health Survey During COVID-19 in Brazil

A survey of 565 medical students from UNIFENAS-BH assessed quality of life and mental health during social isolation from June to October 2020. The study collected sociodemographic data and used the WHOQOL-bref and Goldberg’s GHQ-12 instruments. It was authored by Fabiano Cassaño Arar and published via paperswithcode.

Use Cases

• Analyze correlations between mental health scores and quality of life domains based on the reported Pearson's correlation.
• Investigate demographic factors impacting mental health based on mentioned variables like income, academic cycle, and gender.
• Study the temporal variation in student perceptions based on the comparison of responses from June/July versus August/September/October.

Strengths

• Includes responses from 565 students across all semesters of a medical course.
• Uses validated instruments: WHOQOL-bref for quality of life and Goldberg’s GHQ-12 for mental health.
• Provides specific statistical results, including a mean quality of life score of 64.3 and a 66.9% prevalence of common mental disorders.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and institutional bias as it is from a single Brazilian university.

Provenance

Source

Fabiano Cassaño Arar via paperswithcode.

Collection Method

Quantitative, cross-sectional study using a self-answered questionnaire.

Time Range

June to October 2020.

Geography

Brazil (specifically, medical students at UNIFENAS-BH).