ANALYSIS OF SELF-EVALUATION OF HEALTH AND MORBIDITYAMONG SENIOR STUDENTS OF MEDICAL AND HUMANITARIAN SPECIALTIES
Significance. Health-preserving behavior among students significantly depends on the subjective self-evaluation of health, which may not coincide with its objective state. An adequate understanding of their physical and psychological status, as a rule, has a positive effect on the choice of behavioral patterns. However, here are hardly any data in modern literature on the analysis of relationship between the subjective and objective evaluation of health of senior students in the humanitarian and medical fields of education. Purpose. To study the relationship between quality of life related to health and its objective state among senior students of medical and humanitarian special-ties. Material and Methods. The study was conducted at the Pacific State Medical University and School of Arts and Humanitarian Sciences of the Far Eastern Federal University from 10.12. 2017 to 10.06.2018. A total of 378 senior students (4-6-year students) were selected for participation, 205 of them (54.2%) were medical students and 173 (45.8%) - humanitarian students. Outpatient medical records (forms 025/y; 001-1/y; 062/y) were studied to retrieve information about health. Self-evaluation of life quality related to health was studied using the ques-tionnaire "A brief form of self-evaluation of the quality of life related to health MOS SF-36". Demographic and socio-economic status was assessed through a unified questionnaire (Pozdeeva, 2008; updated by the authors). The average response rate during the study added up to 93.4%. Results. Analysis of the data array showed that students of all specialties most often had diseases of the digestive system (25-28%), respiratory (10-11%), urinary (9%), and nervous systems (8%). The overall assessment of the quality of life of students in both medical and humanitarian specialties was in the range within 62-64 points, which corresponds to the normal values of this indicator. This indicator turned out to be strongly related with the rate of care seeking (r = 0.86, p <0.01; r = 0.91, p <0.01), the rate of detection of chronic diseases (r = 0.39, p <0.05; r = 0.65, p <0.05), with a comorbidity index. Conclusions: Senior students of medical and humanitarian specialties evaluate their life quality as satisfactory, despite the high level of incidence of chronic diseases.