作者机构:
[Fu, Ping; Li, Min; Li, Xueyan; Zhu, Miao; Fan, Changyu] Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Sociol, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.
通讯机构:
[Fu, Ping] C;Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Sociol, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.
关键词:
COVID-19;university and college student;mental health;post-traumatic stress disorder
摘要:
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of students in locked-down colleges remains obscure. This study aimed to explore influencing factors for the psychological impact of COVID-19 on Wuhan college students, post-traumatic stress symptoms in particular, so as to inform evidence-based strategy development to ameliorate such adverse impacts. An online survey was conducted from 26 to 29 April 2020, and 4355 students enrolled in Wuhan universities and colleges participated. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder via the Impact of Event-Scale-Revised was assessed. COVID-19 disproportionately affected older male Master's and doctoral students living in Wuhan. The overall prevalence of PTSD was 16.3%. The three-level socio-interpersonal model of PTSD was empirically validated, and college students faced individual level risks such as infection with COVID-19, close relationship level risks such as family support (infection suspicion of family members, the loss of loved ones, and the family income decrease) and online course difficulties (little interaction, disturbing learning environment, and difficulty in adaption), and distant level risks such as excessive collection of personal information, estrangement of family relatives, and harassment and insult from strangers. The findings suggest the severity of the psychological impact of COVID-19. Mental health services reducing PTSD should be provided. Students who have lost loved ones and suffered family financial loss should be given particular care.
作者机构:
[Fu, Ping; Li, Min; Li, Xueyan; Zhu, Miao; Fan, Changyu] Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Sociol, 152 Luoyu Ave, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.
通讯机构:
[Fu, Ping] C;Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Sociol, 152 Luoyu Ave, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.
关键词:
COVID-19;college students;time of disease onset;infection status;group differences
摘要:
College students represent a large group of people who frequently travel across regions, which increased their risk of infection and exacerbated the risk of COVID-19 spread throughout China. This study uses survey data from the end of April 2020 to analyze the status of COVID-19-infected cases, the group differences, and influencing factors in college students in Wuhan. The sample size was made up 4355 participants, including 70 COVID-19-infected students. We found that during the COVID-19 outbreak in early 2020, college students in Wuhan were primarily infected during off-campus events after winter break or infected in their hometowns after leaving Wuhan; the percentage of college students with severe cases was relatively low, and most had mild cases; however, a large proportion of asymptomatic cases may exist; there were significant group differences in gender, age and place of residence; and the risk of infection was closely related to the campus environment, in which the population density and number of faculty and students on campus had a significant impact. The results indicated that the infection of students did not occur at random, thus strengthening student health education and campus management can help curb the spread of COVID-19 among students.