title: [Characteristics of a population of medical students reported to the University Student Counseling Service "Fatti vivo!"].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  During the last years, in Italy as well abroad, psychological counseling has been spreading through university environment, offering a range of opportunities, from individual settings to post-counseling group psychotherapies. Medical students, on the basis of data from several works within international literature, would represent a population particularly exposed to stressors.
  
  
  METHODS
  In our study we have recruited a sample of 44 medical students at Sapienza University of Rome. As evaluation tools we have used: a gathering card of socio-demographic variables, the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders Clinical Version (SCID-I CV) and a satisfaction card of the service. RESULTS; Fourteen students showed one or more diagnosis in Axis 1 of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR). Frequency analysis through χ2 test has underlined statistically significant differences relative to geographic origin variable. The service has been evaluated as alright.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although the data presented need deeper and more extensive verifications, our study supports the need of a service of psychological counseling devoted to university population and, even more, to medical students.
authors.affiliation: UOD Psicoterapia Sportello Counseling-Accoglienza Studenti Fatti vivo, Sapienza Università di Roma. claudia_lia@hotmail.it
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lia
authors.forename: Eliana
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: Valentina
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gallo
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cavaggioni
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003376:Counseling; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D013337:Students, Medical; D055815:Young Adult