Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of the study population

Age (Mean ± SD, years)

22.4 ± 1.8

Gender

 Male

187

44.7

 Female

231

55.3

Attended college:

 Colleges of medicine

183

43.8

 Other colleges^a

235

56.2

Residence

 Buraidah

209

50.0

 Unaizah

71

17.0

 Ar Rass

56

13.4

 Al Mithnab

10

2.4

 AI Badayea

15

3.6

 Al Bukairyah

30

7.2

 Ryad Alkhubraa

6

1.4

 Others

21

5.0

Academic level

 1st to 3rd years

146

34.9

 4th to 6th years and interns

272

65.1

Diagnosis with psychiatric illness

 None

388

92.8

 Generalized anxiety

16

3.8

 Depression

5

1.2

 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

6

1.4

 Adjustment disorder with depressive mood

1

0.2

 Panic attacks

2

0.5

Diagnosis with chronic medical illness

 None

378

91.5

 Asthma

14

3.4

 Epilepsy

2

0.5

 Diabetes

3

0.7

 Hypertension

3

0.7

 Irritable bowel syndrome

5

1.2

 Severe anemia

1

0.2

 Polycystic ovaries

2

0.5

 Urticaria

1

0.2

 Brain cancer

1

0.2

 Eczema

2

0.5

 Crohn’s disease

1

0.2