Online-Based Survey on College Students' Anxiety During COVID-19 Outbreak

© 2021 Han et al..

PURPOSE: Studies have suggested that public health emergencies can have many psychological effects on college students, therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate current situation of college students' anxiety and its determinants in the time of an unexpected pandemic.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: We conducted convenience sampling to collect the data through network-based online questionnaires in February 2020, a total of 17,876 college students were included in the analysis. Chi-square test and multivariate logistic were used to identify the associations between the outbreak experiences and anxiety detection.

RESULTS: This study found that detection rate of anxiety among college students was 18.2%. The differences in male students, students whose self-perceived risk of infection were high, who were greatly affected by the outbreak, eager to go back to school, reluctant to leave home and stay at home enough were of statistical significance among different anxiety level (OR>1, P<0.05). And the severe anxiety rate of students who living in cities was significantly higher (2.337[1.468, 3.721]).

CONCLUSION: Although our results show that anxiety among college students was at a low level, various universities should focus on the online activities and develop appropriate epidemic management plans to prevent their feelings of worry, tension and panic.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Psychology research and behavior management - 14(2021) vom: 28., Seite 385-392

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Han, Wantong [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Lingzhong [VerfasserIn]
Niu, Aimin [VerfasserIn]
Jing, Yurong [VerfasserIn]
Qin, Wenzhe [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jiao [VerfasserIn]
Jing, Xiang [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yali [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anxiety
COVID-19
College students
Journal Article
Network-based

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Date Revised 21.04.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.2147/PRBM.S298539

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM323799086