Medical vs Non-Medical Student Mental Health in Pakistan: A 602-Student Study
A 602-student Pakistani study found higher depression and anxiety scores among non-medical students, challenging assumptions about student mental health.
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A 602-student Pakistani study found higher depression and anxiety scores among non-medical students, challenging assumptions about student mental health.
New Pakistani data support good DASS-21 reliability and adequate factor-model fit, while raising questions about separation of its three subscales.
A Pakistani study of 602 students shows how PHQ-9 and DASS-21 can illuminate depression, anxiety, stress, sleep, gender, and student mental health.
PHQ-9 and DASS-21 can reveal more than symptom totals, including item performance, symptom patterns, scale structure, and differences between groups.
A Pakistani university study found strong overlap between DASS-21 depression, anxiety and stress, raising important questions about subscale interpretation.
Pakistani student data supported the DASS-21 three-factor structure, but very high factor correlations raise questions about how distinct the scales are.