Analysis of psychological health status of university postgraduate students and its influencing factors

ObjectiveTo analyze the psychological health status of postgraduate students and to find out the factors associated with psychological health.MethodsA purposive samele of postgraduate students from a university of Guangdong province was surveyed by measuring the scale of their psychological stress with SCL-90.ResultsThe scores of SCL-90 factors were lower than that of the noon of college students while some factor scores were higher than the national noon of youth.The top three positive factors were obsessive-compulsive(25.2%),depression(18.9%),interpersonal sensitivity (18.4%).The results of Logistic regression analysis showed that bad relations with roommates, bad relation with spouse or lover, failure in completing the study plans, emotional volatility, suffering from disesteem or discrinination and lack of career planning were risk factors.ConclusionThere exist varying degrees of psychosomatic problems in the special community of students.Mental health education should be enhanced among them.