A comparative study on mental health among both medical and non-medical students

Abstract

Mental health has to do with everybody’s everyday life. Every day each one of us is adjusting to himself to his fellows and to all other aspects of his world. Form the time of birth every human being faces a succession of changing circumstances in his various areas of living. The way in which he reacts to these situations determines the pattern of personalities and the quality of his mental health. The sample size of 60 consisted of medical and Non-medical students. Use the PGI Health questionnaire developed by Wig and Verma (1978) to compare mental health. There is significant difference in Mental Health of Medical and Non-medical graduate students. Results shows that, Medical student have high strength of mental health than non-medical students. Hence Medical student have high mental health rather than non-medical students.