<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><sec id="j_gp-2019-0009_s_008_w2aab3b7b9b1b6b1aab1c16b1Aa"><h3>Objectives</h3><p>To determine the prevalence of the assumption that ‘reading too much’ could cause madness (i.e., severe mental illness) among medical, nursing, and community health students, and also explore the relationship between these students’ status on this assumption and their academic performance.</p></sec><sec id="j_gp-2019-0009_s_009_w2aab3b7b9b1b6b1aab1c16b2Aa"><h3>Methods</h3><p>This study was a cross-sectional study conducted among a convenient sample of medical, nursing, and community health students (n = 122) studying within the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital campus, Sokoto, Nigeria. Study tool was a paper questionnaire, which obtained information on the demographic profile, awareness of ‘madness’, assumption that ‘reading too much’ is a cause of madness, and self-rating of the participants’ academic performance in their current course of study. Data collected was analysed using the SPSS version 20 software. Test of associations between variables were done using Chi square test.</p></sec><sec id="j_gp-2019-0009_s_010_w2aab3b7b9b1b6b1aab1c16b3Aa"><h3>Results</h3><p>The mean age of the 122 respondents was 27.3 years, majority (61.5%) of them were males, and 53.3% were medical students. More than half of the surveyed nursing students (54.2%) and community health students (55.6%), unlike the surveyed medical students (24.6%), had the assumption that reading too much could make them run mad. There was no statistically significant relationship between the assumption that ‘reading too much’ is a cause of mental illness and academic performance of the respondents.</p></sec><sec id="j_gp-2019-0009_s_011_w2aab3b7b9b1b6b1aab1c16b4Aa"><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Assumption that reading too much could cause madness is a fairly common phenomenon among the surveyed tertiary school students, irrespective of their level of academic performance. There exists the need to disabuse the minds of tertiary school students from the assumption that reading too much could make one run mad.</p></sec></abstract>

ObjectivesTo determine the prevalence of the assumption that ‘reading too much’ could cause madness (i.e., severe mental illness) among medical, nursing, and community health students, and also explore the relationship between these students’ status on this assumption and their academic performance.MethodsThis study was a cross-sectional study conducted among a convenient sample of medical, nursing, and community health students (n = 122) studying within the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital campus, Sokoto, Nigeria. Study tool was a paper questionnaire, which obtained information on the demographic profile, awareness of ‘madness’, assumption that ‘reading too much’ is a cause of madness, and self-rating of the participants’ academic performance in their current course of study. Data collected was analysed using the SPSS version 20 software. Test of associations between variables were done using Chi square test.ResultsThe mean age of the 122 respondents was 27.3 years, majority (61.5%) of them were males, and 53.3% were medical students. More than half of the surveyed nursing students (54.2%) and community health students (55.6%), unlike the surveyed medical students (24.6%), had the assumption that reading too much could make them run mad. There was no statistically significant relationship between the assumption that ‘reading too much’ is a cause of mental illness and academic performance of the respondents.ConclusionAssumption that reading too much could cause madness is a fairly common phenomenon among the surveyed tertiary school students, irrespective of their level of academic performance. There exists the need to disabuse the minds of tertiary school students from the assumption that reading too much could make one run mad.

Can reading too much make me run mad? Exploring students’ assumptions and academic performance

Global Psychiatry

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ObjectivesTo determine the prevalence of the assumption that ‘reading too much’ could cause madness (i.e., severe mental illness) among medical, nursing, and...

Can reading too much make me run mad? Exploring students’ assumptions and academic performance

Online veröffentlicht: 22. Mai 2019

Seitenbereich: 107 - 112

Eingereicht: 12. Feb. 2019

Akzeptiert: 14. Apr. 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gp-2019-0009

Schlüsselwörter
Mental illness, belief, assumption, opinion, students, academic performance, health, school, education, Nigeria

© 2019 Kehinde Kazeem Kanmodi et al. published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Can reading too much make me run mad? Exploring students’ assumptions and academic performance

Online veröffentlicht: 22. Mai 2019

Seitenbereich: 107 - 112

Eingereicht: 12. Feb. 2019

Akzeptiert: 14. Apr. 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gp-2019-0009

SchlüsselwörterMental illness, belief, assumption, opinion, students, academic performance, health, school, education, Nigeria

© 2019 Kehinde Kazeem Kanmodi et al. published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
Mental illness, belief, assumption, opinion, students, academic performance, health, school, education, Nigeria