Abstract:

Objective: To investigate the mental health of the impoverished and non-impoverished medical students in Xiaguan Campus of Dali university. Methods: With stratified random sampling method, SCL-90 was used to evaluate the impoverished and non -impoverished students of different specialties, grades and genders in Xiaguan Campus. Results: There were statistical significance in such factors as total and average scores, somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, phobia between the impoverished and non-impoverished students, and all statistical indexes of the impoverished students were higher than those of the non-impoverished. While factors as obssessive-compulsive, depression, anxiety, hostility, paranoid and schizophrenia had no statistical significance.
Conclusion: The evaluation scores of the impoverished students' mental health indexes, which may be related with their family condition, specialty and grade, were partially lower than those of the non-impoverished students.

Key words: impoverished students, mental health, medical specialty