Department of Educational Psychology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Department of Guidance and Counseling, Universitas Negeri Padang, Padang, Indonesia.
Medicine (Baltimore). 2023 Jan 27;102(4):e32724. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000032724.
Studies reporting the incidence of depression among medical students have been on the increase. This research sought to determine whether rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) can be applied to help manage depression in Nigerian undergraduate medical students.
A randomized pretest/posttest control group design was used in this study. Ninety medical students with depression participated in the study and were assisted using the REBT depression manual. Using a mixed-model repeated measures analysis of variance, the researchers examined the intervention data.
The depressive symptoms and its associated irrational beliefs among medical students in the treatment arm were significantly altered by REBT intervention at posttest and this positive outcome was sustained at follow-up in contrast to the control arm.
REBT intervention significantly improves medical students' ability to overcome depression and irrational beliefs. Similar studies could be conducted in a variety of academic settings where these students can be found to expand the findings of this study.
越来越多的研究报告表明医学生群体中存在抑郁现象。本研究旨在探讨理性情绪行为疗法(REBT)是否可应用于帮助管理尼日利亚医学生的抑郁症状。
本研究采用随机前测/后测对照设计。90 名患有抑郁的医学生参与了该研究,并使用 REBT 抑郁手册接受了帮助。研究人员采用混合模型重复测量方差分析来检验干预数据。
REBT 干预后,治疗组医学生的抑郁症状及其相关的不合理信念显著改变,与对照组相比,这种积极的结果在随访中得以维持。
REBT 干预显著提高了医学生克服抑郁和不合理信念的能力。可以在这些学生所在的各种学术环境中进行类似的研究,以扩大本研究的发现。