The Covid-19 pandemic and mental health of first-year college students: Examining the effect of Covid-19 stressors using longitudinal data.
The Covid-19 pandemic and mental health of first-year college students: Examining the effect of Covid-19 stressors using longitudinal data.
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10.1371/journal.pone.0247999
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发表时间：
2021
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Perreira KM
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作者：
Fruehwirth JC;Biswas S;Perreira KM
新冠肺炎疫情给世界各地的学生和教育机构带来了前所未有的压力。本研究旨在评估疫情对大学生心理健康的影响。我们使用了北卡罗来纳州一所大型公立大学在新冠肺炎大流行开始之前(2019年10月至2020年2月)和之后(2020年6月/7月)419名一年级学生(年龄18-20岁)的数据。在根据学生的人口学特征对心理健康和压力源的描述性数据进行评估后，我们估计了新冠肺炎应激源(包括工作减少、健康、远程学习困难和社会孤立)与心理健康症状和严重性控制的关系，包括流行前学生的心理健康、心理社会资源和人口学特征。我们发现，中-重度焦虑的患病率从大流行前的18.1%上升到大流行开始后的四个月内的25.3%；中-重度抑郁的患病率从21.5%上升到31.7%。白人、女性和性/性别少数(SGM)学生焦虑症状增加的风险最高。非西班牙裔(NH)黑人、女性和SGM学生抑郁症状增加的风险最高。与远程学习和社交孤立相关的一般困难导致抑郁和焦虑症状的增加。然而，工作减少、新冠肺炎确诊以及自己、家人或朋友住院与抑郁或焦虑症状的增加无关。大学或许能够通过投资资源来降低新冠肺炎的心理健康后果，以减少远程学习的困难，并在疫情流行期间减少社会孤立。
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented stress to students and educational institutions across the world. We aimed to estimate the effect of the pandemic on the mental health of college students. We used data on 419 first-year students (ages 18–20) at a large public university in North Carolina both before (October 2019-February 2020) and after (June/July 2020) the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. After evaluating descriptive data on mental health and stressors by students’ demographic characteristics, we estimated the associations between Covid-19 stressors (including work reductions, health, distanced learning difficulties and social isolation) and mental health symptoms and severity controlling for students’ pre-pandemic mental health, psychosocial resources, and demographic characteristics. We found that the prevalence of moderate-severe anxiety increased from 18.1% before the pandemic to 25.3% within four months after the pandemic began; and the prevalence of moderate-severe depression increased from 21.5% to 31.7%. White, female and sexual/gender minority (SGM) students were at highest risk of increases in anxiety symptoms. Non-Hispanic (NH) Black, female, and SGM students were at highest risk of increases in depression symptoms. General difficulties associated with distanced learning and social isolation contributed to the increases in both depression and anxiety symptoms. However, work reductions as well as Covid-19 diagnosis and hospitalization of oneself, family members or friends were not associated with increases in depression or anxiety symptoms. Colleges may be able to reduce the mental health consequences of Covid-19 by investing in resources to reduce difficulties with distance learning and reduce social isolation during the pandemic.
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