Publication date: Sep 20, 2024
To identify potential associations between student characteristics and mental health symptoms during the early parts of the pandemic. 3,883 students at a large public university on the West Coast of the United States. We conducted a repeated cross-sectional survey to assess health-protective behaviors, mental health, social support, and stigma resistance. The survey was administered in April 2020 and again in November/December 2020. Odds of mental health symptoms were estimated using multinomial logistic regression. 39% of respondents reported anxious symptoms, 9% reported depressive symptoms, and 27% reported both anxious and depressive symptoms. AAPI had lower odds of reporting both anxious/depressive symptoms compared to whites (OR = 0. 59; 95% CI:0. 43-0. 81). Students reported elevated levels of psychological stress during the pandemic, yet our results may underestimate the actual odds due to stress brought on by COVID-19.
Concepts | Keywords |
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April | anxiety symptoms |
Covid | COVID-19 |
Depressive | depressive symptoms |
Student | mental health |
Whites | university students |
Semantics
Type | Source | Name |
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disease | MESH | COVID-19 |
disease | MESH | emergency |
disease | MESH | depressive symptoms |
disease | MESH | psychological stress |
disease | MESH | anxiety |