[Contribution to the study of students' mental health (author's transl)]

The authors intended to study within the population of an outpatient psychiatric consultation those who are under training or education, whatever type of education it may be. These 'students', in a broad sense, have been the object of epidemiological and clinical studies. The sample they constitue has been compared first with a sample of the service's population, secondly within the sample itself comparison has been made between smaller groups, caracterized by the level of formation. This leads to a description of the typical 'student patient' of this consultation. The comparison with the other patients of the service shows some differences, specially age. Students are. as a rule, younger. We note others and more interesting differences related with origin, the proportion of strangers is much greater in the students; group. On the other hand, they are people who spontaneously come to consult for neurosis. The comparison between the two sub-groups within the group of students shows the same differences we noticed above. They showed up with a greater evidence in the University students' group, but this last group does not fundamentally diverge from the students in the professional schools in relation to the items that were the object of this study.