STETHOSCOPE 1st INTERVENTION
SCOPH CIMSA FK YARSI
Depression is defined as a feeling of sadness accompanied by accompanying symptoms including changes in sleep patterns, concentration, psychomotor, hopelessness, and suicidal ideation. While anxiety is a term that describes a psychological disorder that can have characteristics in the form of fear, concern for the future, prolonged worry, and nervousness. Mental health is an important thing that must be considered as physical health. It can cause excessive stress which will have an impact on worse mental health disorders. One of the groups of people who are vulnerable to mental health disorders are medical school students because medical education is a long educational process compared to other groups. Thus, psychiatric problems such as depression and anxiety are often found in medical students, especially first-year preclinical students and can be psychological stressors.
Many medical students have psychiatric problems, but do not want to share their condition with others, or seek treatment. This can lead to serious problems, such as suicidal ideation. Preventive efforts should be introduced and started at the beginning of medical education to help deal with various problems from the academic side and interpersonal relationships. Early signs of depression and anxiety symptoms among college students must also be addressed before they get worse. Therefore, providing information and education from an early age to students is very important. It is hoped that by holding this Online Webinar & Talk Show, first-year FK YARSI students can add good and correct understanding and knowledge about mental health, especially depression and anxiety.
Starting with conducting a primary assessment in the form of filling out questionnaires by students of the Faculty of Medicine, YARSI University batch of 2020 then carrying out Bonding with community members, a series of intervention events 1 STETHOSCOPE which collaborated with the founder of Into The Light Indonesia, namely Benny Prawira M.Psi as resource persons and Ashandi Triyoga Prawira as a suicide survivor. This presentation on Intervention 1 aims to provide material about mental health knowledge, especially depression and anxiety to community members and share about how to survive when experiencing depression.
With the end of intervention 1, it is hoped that the series of activities that have been carried out starting from assessment, bonding, and intervention 1 can be useful for community members so that all community members can become more aware of the importance of mental health.
