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COVID-19 pandemic's impact on French Health Students: A cross-sectional study during the third wave

BACKGROUND: COVID19 pandemic had a huge impact on global mental health. Health students, because of their age and status, are a more at-risk population. National survey during the first wave already found high levels of psychological distress. OBJECTIVE: This nationwide study aimed to assess health&...

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Autores principales: Frajerman, Ariel, Rolland, Franck, Falissard, Bruno, Bertschy, Gilles, Diquet, Bertrand, Marra, Donata
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9116964/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35597464
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.05.087
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author Frajerman, Ariel
Rolland, Franck
Falissard, Bruno
Bertschy, Gilles
Diquet, Bertrand
Marra, Donata
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Rolland, Franck
Falissard, Bruno
Bertschy, Gilles
Diquet, Bertrand
Marra, Donata
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description BACKGROUND: COVID19 pandemic had a huge impact on global mental health. Health students, because of their age and status, are a more at-risk population. National survey during the first wave already found high levels of psychological distress. OBJECTIVE: This nationwide study aimed to assess health's student mental health during the third wave in France. METHODS: We did an online national cross-sectional study, which addressed all health students from April 4th to May 11th 2021. The questionnaire included sociodemographic and work conditions questions, Kessler 6 scale, and numeric scales. RESULTS: 16,937 students answered, including 54% nurse and 16% medical students. Regarding K6 scale, 14% have moderate (8–12) and 83% high (≥13) level of psychological distress. In multivariate analysis, being a man (OR = 0.54, 95% CI [0.48; 0.60], p < 0.001) and not living alone (OR = 0.71, 95% CI [0.62; 0.82], p < 0.001), are associated with a reduced risk of psychological distress. Not having the ability to isolate themselves (OR = 1.58, 95% CI [1.39; 1.81], p < 0.001), and having low (OR = 2.31, 95% CI [2.08; 2.56], p < 0.001) or important (OR = 4.58, 95% CI [3.98; 5.29], p < 0.001) financial difficulties are associated with an increased risk of psychological distress. LIMITATIONS: The response rate was low regarding the target population (300,000 health students). CONCLUSION: Compared to the first national survey, we noticed mental health deterioration. Psychological distress (83% high level versus 21%), substance use (21% versus 13%), and psychotropic treatment use (18% versus 7.3%) hugely increased. These results highlighted the need to increase support actions for health students.
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spelling pubmed-91169642022-05-19 COVID-19 pandemic's impact on French Health Students: A cross-sectional study during the third wave Frajerman, Ariel Rolland, Franck Falissard, Bruno Bertschy, Gilles Diquet, Bertrand Marra, Donata J Affect Disord Research Paper BACKGROUND: COVID19 pandemic had a huge impact on global mental health. Health students, because of their age and status, are a more at-risk population. National survey during the first wave already found high levels of psychological distress. OBJECTIVE: This nationwide study aimed to assess health's student mental health during the third wave in France. METHODS: We did an online national cross-sectional study, which addressed all health students from April 4th to May 11th 2021. The questionnaire included sociodemographic and work conditions questions, Kessler 6 scale, and numeric scales. RESULTS: 16,937 students answered, including 54% nurse and 16% medical students. Regarding K6 scale, 14% have moderate (8–12) and 83% high (≥13) level of psychological distress. In multivariate analysis, being a man (OR = 0.54, 95% CI [0.48; 0.60], p < 0.001) and not living alone (OR = 0.71, 95% CI [0.62; 0.82], p < 0.001), are associated with a reduced risk of psychological distress. Not having the ability to isolate themselves (OR = 1.58, 95% CI [1.39; 1.81], p < 0.001), and having low (OR = 2.31, 95% CI [2.08; 2.56], p < 0.001) or important (OR = 4.58, 95% CI [3.98; 5.29], p < 0.001) financial difficulties are associated with an increased risk of psychological distress. LIMITATIONS: The response rate was low regarding the target population (300,000 health students). CONCLUSION: Compared to the first national survey, we noticed mental health deterioration. Psychological distress (83% high level versus 21%), substance use (21% versus 13%), and psychotropic treatment use (18% versus 7.3%) hugely increased. These results highlighted the need to increase support actions for health students. Elsevier B.V. 2022-08-15 2022-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9116964/ /pubmed/35597464 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.05.087 Text en © 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Marra, Donata
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9116964/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35597464
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.05.087
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