Prazeres Filipe, Maia Diogo, Duarte Marta
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Beira Interior, 6200-506 Covilhã, Portugal.
Family Health Unit Beira Ria, 3830-596 Gafanha da Nazaré, Portugal.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2025 Aug 16;22(8):1282. doi: 10.3390/ijerph22081282.
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: There is still debate about students' health in medical schools. The aim of this study was to assess the proportion of chronic diseases among medical students and analyze their predictors.
We performed a secondary cross-sectional analysis using a database from a single Portuguese university. The sociodemographic/clinical variables of 309 medical students were included. Logistic regression was performed to ascertain the effects of sex, age, medical course year, financial situation, and family history of chronic diseases on the likelihood of medical students having chronic disease.
Median age (Q1, Q3) was 21 (17, 43) years, with females comprising 79.9% of the sample. The distribution of students by school year was similar. The majority (65.7%) reported having sufficient money. Twenty-three percent suffered from chronic disease, and around forty percent had parents or siblings with chronic disease. In the regression model, only a family history of chronic disease was associated with a personal history of chronic disease. Medical students with parents or siblings who have a chronic disease are 3.3 times more likely to have a chronic disease themselves.
Future interventions targeting the medical student population will be needed in Portugal to reduce the prevalence and burden of chronic diseases, particularly among those with a positive family history.
背景/目的：关于医学院校学生的健康状况仍存在争议。本研究旨在评估医学生中慢性病的比例，并分析其预测因素。
我们使用来自一所葡萄牙大学的数据库进行了二次横断面分析。纳入了309名医学生的社会人口统计学/临床变量。进行逻辑回归以确定性别、年龄、医学课程年份、经济状况和慢性病家族史对医学生患慢性病可能性的影响。
年龄中位数（第一四分位数，第三四分位数）为21（17，43）岁，女性占样本的79.9%。各学年学生的分布相似。大多数（65.7%）表示钱足够用。23%的学生患有慢性病，约40%的学生父母或兄弟姐妹患有慢性病。在回归模型中，只有慢性病家族史与个人慢性病病史相关。父母或兄弟姐妹患有慢性病的医学生患慢性病的可能性是其他人的3.3倍。
葡萄牙未来需要针对医学生群体采取干预措施，以降低慢性病的患病率和负担，特别是在那些有阳性家族史的人群中。
