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Volume2, Issue1

Can reading too much make me run mad? Exploring students’ assumptions and academic performance

    Kehinde Kazeem Kanmodi Olanrewaju Isaac Owoeye Almu Bello Linda Ekele Iyadi

GLOBAL PSYCHIATRY ARCHIVES, 2020, Volume 2, Issue 1, Pages 107-112
https://doi.org/10.2478/gp-2019-0009

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Abstract

Objectives
To determine the prevalence of the assumption that ‘reading too much’ could cause madness (i.e., severe mental illness) among medical, nursing, and community health students, and also explore the relationship between these students’ status on this assumption and their academic performance.


Methods
This study was a cross-sectional study conducted among a convenient sample of medical, nursing, and community health students (n = 122) studying within the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital campus, Sokoto, Nigeria. Study tool was a paper questionnaire, which obtained information on the demographic profile, awareness of ‘madness’, assumption that ‘reading too much’ is a cause of madness, and self-rating of the participants’ academic performance in their current course of study. Data collected was analysed using the SPSS version 20 software. Test of associations between variables were done using Chi square test.


Results
The mean age of the 122 respondents was 27.3 years, majority (61.5%) of them were males, and 53.3% were medical students. More than half of the surveyed nursing students (54.2%) and community health students (55.6%), unlike the surveyed medical students (24.6%), had the assumption that reading too much could make them run mad. There was no statistically significant relationship between the assumption that ‘reading too much’ is a cause of mental illness and academic performance of the respondents.


Conclusion
Assumption that reading too much could cause madness is a fairly common phenomenon among the surveyed tertiary school students, irrespective of their level of academic performance. There exists the need to disabuse the minds of tertiary school students from the assumption that reading too much could make one run mad.










 
Keywords:
    mental illness Belief assumption opinion students Academic Performance Health school Education Nigeria
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(2020). Can reading too much make me run mad? Exploring students’ assumptions and academic performance. GLOBAL PSYCHIATRY ARCHIVES, 2(1), 107-112. doi: https://doi.org/10.2478/gp-2019-0009
Kehinde Kazeem Kanmodi; Olanrewaju Isaac Owoeye; Almu Bello; Linda Ekele Iyadi. "Can reading too much make me run mad? Exploring students’ assumptions and academic performance". GLOBAL PSYCHIATRY ARCHIVES, 2, 1, 2020, 107-112. doi: https://doi.org/10.2478/gp-2019-0009
(2020). 'Can reading too much make me run mad? Exploring students’ assumptions and academic performance', GLOBAL PSYCHIATRY ARCHIVES, 2(1), pp. 107-112. doi: https://doi.org/10.2478/gp-2019-0009
Can reading too much make me run mad? Exploring students’ assumptions and academic performance. GLOBAL PSYCHIATRY ARCHIVES, 2020; 2(1): 107-112. doi: https://doi.org/10.2478/gp-2019-0009
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