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Table 2 Psychological distress and positive mental health in participating clinical clerkship students

From: A cross-sectional examination of psychological distress, positive mental health and their predictors in medical students in their clinical clerkships

 

Total

Women

Men

p valueb

Psychological distress

 Global severity index, M (SD)

0.39 (0.29)

0.41 (0.29)

0.30 (0.28)

<0.001c

 Above cut-offa, n (%)

86 (21.2)

72 (23.6)

14 (14.0)

.05

Positive mental health

 Total score, M (SD)

45.7 (10.3)

45.3 (10.1)

46.8 (10.8)

.21

Positive mental health, categories

 Languishing, n (%)

5 (1.3)

4 (1.4)

1 (1.0)

.07

 Moderate, n (%)

225 (57.8)

179 (61.1)

46 (47.9)

 Flourishing, n (%)

159 (40.9)

110 (37.5)

49 (51.0)

  1. a a cut-off score of 0.58 is advised in Dutch samples to screen for psychopathology
  2. b In case of skewed/categorised data non-parametric Mann-Whitney U tests and Chi-square tests were used
  3. c remained significant after Bonferroni correction for multiple testing 0.05/4 = alpha level 0.0125