Adaptation to university and common mental disorders in nursing undergraduate student

Abstract

Our objective was to assess the adaptation to university and its relationship with the occurrenceof Common Mental Disorders (CMD) among undergraduate nursing students. We conducted an analytical, cross-sectional and quantitative study with 92 nursing students from a Federal Institution of Superior Education in Minas Gerais. For the data collection, we used a sociodemographic and academic questionnaire, the Questionário de Vivências Acadêmicas-reduzido(QVA-r) and, the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20). We observed goodadaptation level among participants, with better scores in the Career dimension and lower scores in the Personal dimension. We found a CMD indicative of 43.5% and an inverse correlation with the adaptation to university, indicating the better adaptation, the lower probability of CMD. The findings showed that the adaptation process to university is related to student’s mental health and, it indicatesthe need of interventions directed to academic adaptation as a health promotion strategy.