Keywords: health status, young generation, teenage girls.
Background:
The health status of the young generation is very important, as the latter is the bases of the future work force and wellbeing of countries.
Research question(s):
Evaluation of the self-reported health status of female medical students from the Republic of Moldova.
Methods:
220 teenage girls were enrolled in the study, with an average age of 16.9±0.04 years, 67.7% from rural areas and 32.3% from urban areas. They were interviewed according to the approved questionnaire. The differences in the subjective self-reported health status were evaluated in relation to the socio-economic conditions of existence and the complaints.
Results:
In the study group, 165 (75.0%; CI95 69.2-80.8%) respondents reported themselves: "clinically healthy", followed by 44 (20.0%; CI95 14.6-25.4%) people who reported themselves "practically healthy", 7 (3.2%; CI95 0.84-5.7%) people "often sick" and the rest 4 (1.8%; CI95 0.02-3, 6%) - "chronically ill" people (3.2%).
Conclusion(s):
The majority of participants considered themselves healthy and practically healthy (95%). Each respondent reported a different number of complaints, as intensity and duration, characteristic chronic fatigue and asthenic syndrome.
Points for discussion:
How to increase the addressability of "apparently healthy" young people to primary care medical services?
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