title: Academic performance of students who underwent psychiatric treatment at the students' mental health service of a Brazilian university.
abstract: University students are generally at the typical age of onset of mental disorders that may affect their academic performance. We aimed to characterize the university students attended by psychiatrists at the students' mental health service (SAPPE) and to compare their academic performance with that of non-patient students.
  Cross-sectional study based on review of medical files and survey of academic data at a Brazilian public university.
  Files of 1,237 students attended by psychiatrists at SAPPE from 2004 to 2011 were reviewed. Their academic performance coefficient (APC) and status as of July 2015 were compared to those of a control group of 2,579 non-patient students matched by gender, course and year of enrolment.
  37% of the patients had had psychiatric treatment and 4.5% had made suicide attempts before being attended at SAPPE. Depression (39.1%) and anxiety disorders/phobias (33.2%) were the most frequent diagnoses. Severe mental disorders such as psychotic disorders (3.7%) and bipolar disorder (1.9%) were less frequent. Compared with non-patients, the mean APC among the undergraduate patients was slightly lower (0.63; standard deviation, SD: 0.26; versus 0.64; SD: 0.28; P = 0.025), but their course completion rates were higher and course abandonment rates were lower. Regarding postgraduate students, patients and non-patients had similar completion rates, but patients had greater incidence of discharge for poor performance and lower dropout rates.
  Despite the inclusion of socially vulnerable people with severe mental disorders, the group of patients had similar academic performance, and in some aspects better, than, that of non-patients.
authors.affiliation: MD. Psychiatrist, Master's Degree Student, Students' Psychiatric and Psychological Service, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (FCM-Unicamp), Campinas (SP), Brazil.
authors.forename: Cláudia Ribeiro Franulovic
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Campos
authors.affiliation: MSc. Psychologist, Students' Psychiatric and Psychological Service, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (FCM-Unicamp), Campinas (SP), Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria Lilian Coelho
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.affiliation: MD, PhD. Psychiatrist, Students' Psychiatric and Psychological Service, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (FCM-Unicamp), Campinas (SP), Brazil.
authors.forename: Tânia Maron Vichi Freire de
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Mello
authors.affiliation: MD, PhD. Psychiatrist and Professor, Department of Medical Psychology and Psychiatry, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (FCM-Unicamp), Campinas (SP), Brazil.
authors.forename: Clarissa de Rosalmeida
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Dantas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008605:Mental Health Services; D012572:School Health Services; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014495:Universities