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Anxiety and depressive symptoms of German university students 20 months after the COVID-19 outbreak – A cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Given the long duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, monitoring mental health remains important. This study aimed to determine (1) the prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms among university students 20 months after the first COVID-19 restrictions and (2) which factors were associate...

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Autores principales: Heumann, Eileen, Helmer, Stefanie M., Busse, Heide, Negash, Sarah, Horn, Johannes, Pischke, Claudia R., Niephaus, Yasemin, Stock, Christiane
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Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9547656/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36220498
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.09.158
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author Heumann, Eileen
Helmer, Stefanie M.
Busse, Heide
Negash, Sarah
Horn, Johannes
Pischke, Claudia R.
Niephaus, Yasemin
Stock, Christiane
author_facet Heumann, Eileen
Helmer, Stefanie M.
Busse, Heide
Negash, Sarah
Horn, Johannes
Pischke, Claudia R.
Niephaus, Yasemin
Stock, Christiane
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description BACKGROUND: Given the long duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, monitoring mental health remains important. This study aimed to determine (1) the prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms among university students 20 months after the first COVID-19 restrictions and (2) which factors were associated with these outcomes. METHODS: The cross-sectional COVID-19 German Student Well-being Study (C19 GSWS) collected data of 7025 students at five German universities. Associations between anxiety and depressive symptoms with sociodemographic and other factors were analysed using multivariable logistic regression models. RESULTS: The mean age of the participants was 23.9 years (SD = 4.9), 67 % were female and 31 % male. The prevalence for depressive symptoms was 29 % (PHQ-2) and 12 % (CES-D 8) and 32 % for anxiety. A complicated relationship status, the lack of a trusted person, and financial difficulties were associated with anxiety and depressive symptoms. University students who were worried about (re-) infection with COVID-19 had a 1.37-times higher chance for reporting anxiety (GAD-2: OR, 95 % CI: 1.09–1.71). Those with pre-existing cardiovascular health conditions had an up to 3.21-times higher chance for reporting depressive symptoms (OR, CESD-D 8, 95 % CI: 1.44–7.14). LIMITATIONS: The study design is cross-sectional and uses self-reported outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: Concepts for prevention and counselling to tackle mental health problems in students are needed and programmes should take specific stressors related to the pandemic into account.
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spelling pubmed-95476562022-10-11 Anxiety and depressive symptoms of German university students 20 months after the COVID-19 outbreak – A cross-sectional study Heumann, Eileen Helmer, Stefanie M. Busse, Heide Negash, Sarah Horn, Johannes Pischke, Claudia R. Niephaus, Yasemin Stock, Christiane J Affect Disord Article BACKGROUND: Given the long duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, monitoring mental health remains important. This study aimed to determine (1) the prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms among university students 20 months after the first COVID-19 restrictions and (2) which factors were associated with these outcomes. METHODS: The cross-sectional COVID-19 German Student Well-being Study (C19 GSWS) collected data of 7025 students at five German universities. Associations between anxiety and depressive symptoms with sociodemographic and other factors were analysed using multivariable logistic regression models. RESULTS: The mean age of the participants was 23.9 years (SD = 4.9), 67 % were female and 31 % male. The prevalence for depressive symptoms was 29 % (PHQ-2) and 12 % (CES-D 8) and 32 % for anxiety. A complicated relationship status, the lack of a trusted person, and financial difficulties were associated with anxiety and depressive symptoms. University students who were worried about (re-) infection with COVID-19 had a 1.37-times higher chance for reporting anxiety (GAD-2: OR, 95 % CI: 1.09–1.71). Those with pre-existing cardiovascular health conditions had an up to 3.21-times higher chance for reporting depressive symptoms (OR, CESD-D 8, 95 % CI: 1.44–7.14). LIMITATIONS: The study design is cross-sectional and uses self-reported outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: Concepts for prevention and counselling to tackle mental health problems in students are needed and programmes should take specific stressors related to the pandemic into account. Elsevier B.V. 2023-01-01 2022-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9547656/ /pubmed/36220498 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.09.158 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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Helmer, Stefanie M.
Busse, Heide
Negash, Sarah
Horn, Johannes
Pischke, Claudia R.
Niephaus, Yasemin
Stock, Christiane
Anxiety and depressive symptoms of German university students 20 months after the COVID-19 outbreak – A cross-sectional study
title Anxiety and depressive symptoms of German university students 20 months after the COVID-19 outbreak – A cross-sectional study
title_full Anxiety and depressive symptoms of German university students 20 months after the COVID-19 outbreak – A cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Anxiety and depressive symptoms of German university students 20 months after the COVID-19 outbreak – A cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Anxiety and depressive symptoms of German university students 20 months after the COVID-19 outbreak – A cross-sectional study
title_short Anxiety and depressive symptoms of German university students 20 months after the COVID-19 outbreak – A cross-sectional study
title_sort anxiety and depressive symptoms of german university students 20 months after the covid-19 outbreak – a cross-sectional study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9547656/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36220498
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.09.158
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