Mental health in medical students during COVID-19 quarantine: a comprehensive analysis across year-classes.
Thais PerissottoThamires Clair Rodrigues Pereira da SilvaFabricio Petermann Choueiri MiskulinMariana Berwerth PereiraBeatriz Astolfi NevesBeatriz Cantieri AlmeidaAmanda Victoria CasagrandeSalma Rose Imanari RibeizPaula Villela NunesPublished in: Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) (2021)
We found high levels of mental burden in medical students in the early period of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in first-year students, who may have fewer resources to deal with stress. Moreover, as they entered college a short time before the pandemic, they were unable to experience academic life fully or create important new social support networks to deal with adversities.