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October 1, 2025Medical Education

Mental health longitudinal trajectories and predictors in medical students: Latent growth mixture model analysis

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YCYinhai ChenRXRan XuTZTong Zhou

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Longitudinal study reveals distinct anxiety and depression trajectories in medical students, highlighting social support as a key predictor.

Key Points

  • Medical students exhibit distinct trajectories of anxiety and depression symptoms over a two-year period.
  • Two depression trajectories were identified, with 92% showing a slowly decreasing pattern and 8% indicating a significant increase.
  • Anxiety symptoms followed three trajectories, where 72.7% showed slow decreases and 21.2% exhibited significant decreases.
  • Social support and family relationships significantly predicted the trajectories of anxiety and depression in students.

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Chen et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68dd9537fe798ba2fc499803https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.70047
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