Academic difficulty among male Egyptian university students. I. Association with psychiatric morbidity.
A survey was made of academic difficulties among undergraduate students at Ain Shams University, Cairo, during the academic year 1979-1980. Almost 6% of students dropped out before graduating and a further 8% required substantial extra time to complete their course of study: these figures were almost identical for both sexes. Psychiatric disorders were diagnosed in 42% of male students with academic problems (compared with 9% among the academically successful), with neuroses accounting for nearly half of the cases and schizophrenia for a quarter. Serious psychiatric illness was nearly four times as frequent among 3rd-year students as among 1st-year students.
D004521:Educational Measurement; D004534:Egypt; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D013332:Student Dropouts; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014495:Universities