Venus and Mars on the benches of the faculty: Influence of gender on mental health and behavior of medical students. Results from the BOURBON national study

Journal of Affective Disorders
G FondL Boyer

Abstract

Medical student wellness has emerged as an important issue in medical education. To evaluate the gender influence on psychiatric and/or psychological follow-up, psychotropic and illicit drug consumption, addictive behaviors, quality of life and motives for consumption in a large multicentric national sample of medical students. Medical students of the 35 French Medicine faculties were recruited through mailing lists and social networks between December 2016 and May 2017 and fulfilled Internet anonymized questionnaires. Overall, 10,985 medical students were included in the present study (mean age 21.8 years, 9640 (87.8%) women). Compared to men, women were found to smoke tobacco and cannabis less frequently (aOR = 0.8 [0.7-0.9], p < 0.0001 and aOR = 0.3 [0.3-0.4], p < 0.0001 respectively), to have lower rate of alcohol use disorders (aOR = 0.7 [0.6-0.7], p < 0.0001). Men were also found to consume more frequently ecstasy, cocaine, mushrooms, amphetamine, LSD, codeine and ketamine (all p < 0.0001) for pleasure and novelty seeking, group effect, but also alleviating anxiety, sedative and stimulant effect and stress before exam (all p < 0.001) while women were more frequently followed-up by a psychiatrist and/or a psychologist (aOR...Continue Reading

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May 7, 2020·European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience·Guillaume FondL Boyer
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