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The Impact of the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Employment Decisions of Medical Students in North China
Background: The outbreak of severe respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) has led to long periods of social isolation for individuals across the world. Although medical students generally have a high prevalence of mental health problems, they have received less attention than other groups c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8326451/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34349677 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.641138 |
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author | Gao, Feng Jiao, Shu-xin Bi, Ya-qiong Huang, Zi-yi Wang, Pei Zhang, Bo-yan Fang, Jing Han, Rui-lan Fan, Lei Wang, Min-jie Lv, Xiao-li Li, Jun Hu, Yu-xia Zhang, Meng-di Qiao, Qing Zhao, Xue Li, Dan Xiao, Zhi-bin Chang, Fu-hou Bai, Tu-ya |
author_facet | Gao, Feng Jiao, Shu-xin Bi, Ya-qiong Huang, Zi-yi Wang, Pei Zhang, Bo-yan Fang, Jing Han, Rui-lan Fan, Lei Wang, Min-jie Lv, Xiao-li Li, Jun Hu, Yu-xia Zhang, Meng-di Qiao, Qing Zhao, Xue Li, Dan Xiao, Zhi-bin Chang, Fu-hou Bai, Tu-ya |
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description | Background: The outbreak of severe respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) has led to long periods of social isolation for individuals across the world. Although medical students generally have a high prevalence of mental health problems, they have received less attention than other groups concerning the impact of SARS-COV-2. Therefore, the present study investigated the mental health status, risk factors, and protective factors for mental health problems in medical students in North China during the SARS-COV-2 pandemic. Methods: A WeChat-based survey, which included the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 and measures of social demographics, was performed twice. Risk and protective factors were identified by binary logistic regression analysis. Results: A total of 702 effective questionnaires were collected in two separate surveys. In total, 24.55% of medical students were suffering anxiety to different degrees of severity, 13.18% were suffering depression in the first survey, and 3.71% wanted to give up working in primary medical care during the SARS-COV-2 pandemic in the second survey. In contrast, during the SARS-COV-2 pandemic, a risk factor for anxiety and depression was gender which is male, while being knowledgeable about the SARS-COV-2 pandemic and having a lower academic burden were both protective factors. Conclusions: Measures are required to prevent increases in mental health problems in medical students. Our findings suggest that increasing knowledge about the SARS-COV-2 pandemic and reducing academic burden in medical students is extremely important during the SARS-COV-2 pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-83264512021-08-03 The Impact of the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Employment Decisions of Medical Students in North China Gao, Feng Jiao, Shu-xin Bi, Ya-qiong Huang, Zi-yi Wang, Pei Zhang, Bo-yan Fang, Jing Han, Rui-lan Fan, Lei Wang, Min-jie Lv, Xiao-li Li, Jun Hu, Yu-xia Zhang, Meng-di Qiao, Qing Zhao, Xue Li, Dan Xiao, Zhi-bin Chang, Fu-hou Bai, Tu-ya Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Background: The outbreak of severe respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) has led to long periods of social isolation for individuals across the world. Although medical students generally have a high prevalence of mental health problems, they have received less attention than other groups concerning the impact of SARS-COV-2. Therefore, the present study investigated the mental health status, risk factors, and protective factors for mental health problems in medical students in North China during the SARS-COV-2 pandemic. Methods: A WeChat-based survey, which included the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 and measures of social demographics, was performed twice. Risk and protective factors were identified by binary logistic regression analysis. Results: A total of 702 effective questionnaires were collected in two separate surveys. In total, 24.55% of medical students were suffering anxiety to different degrees of severity, 13.18% were suffering depression in the first survey, and 3.71% wanted to give up working in primary medical care during the SARS-COV-2 pandemic in the second survey. In contrast, during the SARS-COV-2 pandemic, a risk factor for anxiety and depression was gender which is male, while being knowledgeable about the SARS-COV-2 pandemic and having a lower academic burden were both protective factors. Conclusions: Measures are required to prevent increases in mental health problems in medical students. Our findings suggest that increasing knowledge about the SARS-COV-2 pandemic and reducing academic burden in medical students is extremely important during the SARS-COV-2 pandemic. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8326451/ /pubmed/34349677 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.641138 Text en Copyright © 2021 Gao, Jiao, Bi, Huang, Wang, Zhang, Fang, Han, Fan, Wang, Lv, Li, Hu, Zhang, Qiao, Zhao, Li, Xiao, Chang and Bai. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry Gao, Feng Jiao, Shu-xin Bi, Ya-qiong Huang, Zi-yi Wang, Pei Zhang, Bo-yan Fang, Jing Han, Rui-lan Fan, Lei Wang, Min-jie Lv, Xiao-li Li, Jun Hu, Yu-xia Zhang, Meng-di Qiao, Qing Zhao, Xue Li, Dan Xiao, Zhi-bin Chang, Fu-hou Bai, Tu-ya The Impact of the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Employment Decisions of Medical Students in North China |
title | The Impact of the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Employment Decisions of Medical Students in North China |
title_full | The Impact of the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Employment Decisions of Medical Students in North China |
title_fullStr | The Impact of the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Employment Decisions of Medical Students in North China |
title_full_unstemmed | The Impact of the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Employment Decisions of Medical Students in North China |
title_short | The Impact of the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Employment Decisions of Medical Students in North China |
title_sort | impact of the sars-cov-2 pandemic on the mental health and employment decisions of medical students in north china |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8326451/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34349677 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.641138 |
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