Sex difference in the rates and co-occurring conditions of XXXX symptoms in incoming college students in Taiwan.

@entity1 @entity1775 @entity10420 @entity146 @entity25192 @entity8396 @entity5748 @entity23 @entity161 @entity3119
OBJECTIVE: The authors investigated the sex difference in the rates and co-occurring patterns in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of @entity146 , Fourth Edition-referenced @entity146 symptoms among incoming first-year college students in Taiwan. METHODS: This was a college-based questionnaire survey. The @entity1 included 2731 incoming first-year college students (male, 52.4%; mean age, 19.3    2.6 years). The @entity1 completed the Chinese version of the Adult Self Report Inventory-4 for the assessment of a wide range of @entity146 symptoms according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of @entity146 , Fourth Edition symptom criteria. The @entity1 rate was 74.1%. RESULTS: There were 55% of the @entity1 having at least one @entity146 symptom. Symptoms of @entity8396 , body dysmorphic, and @entity5748 were more prevalent in @entity1 ; those of @entity3119 , @entity1775 , conduct problems, @entity25192 , and @entity23 were more prevalent in @entity1 . The magnitude of symptom correlations between @entity3119 and @entity5748 , dysthymia, and @entity10420 , and between @entity5748 and @entity161 was significantly greater in male @entity1 , whereas that between conduct problems and obsession and motor @entity1775 was significantly greater in female @entity1 . CONCLUSIONS: The Chinese version of the Adult Self Report Inventory-4 identified similar sex difference in @entity146 symptoms as Western studies. The sex difference in co-occurring @entity146 conditions warrants further investigation.
