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The Association between COVID-19 Pandemic and the Quality of Life of Medical Students in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
(1) Background: Since the COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly in 2020, medical universities have been affected by a particular crisis. Due to the increased risk of SARS CoV-2 transmission, the authorities of medical faculties all over the world, including Poland, started to minimize direct contact betw...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9565595/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36231191 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191911888 |
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author | Szemik, Szymon Gajda, Maksymilian Gładyś, Aleksandra Kowalska, Małgorzata |
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description | (1) Background: Since the COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly in 2020, medical universities have been affected by a particular crisis. Due to the increased risk of SARS CoV-2 transmission, the authorities of medical faculties all over the world, including Poland, started to minimize direct contact between students. The objective of the paper is to identify and assess determinants of the quality of life among medical students in Poland before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2) Methods: We analyzed data obtained in a cross-sectional study performed among three groups of students tested in three consecutive research periods: period before the COVID-19 pandemic, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period and the COVID-19 pandemic period following lockdown. (3) Results: The total number of participants was 1098. We identified that the research period before the COVID-19 pandemic was the risk factor for lower quality of life in terms of the somatic and environmental domains. It was also confirmed that determinants such as poor financial situation, low frequency of physical activity and bad self-declared health status harmed the QoL scores in all domains. (4) Conclusions: The obtained results confirmed that better financial situation, higher physical activity and better self-declared health status were statistically significant factors improving the quality of life of first-year medical students in Poland. The findings of our study also showed that the declared somatic and environmental domains of QoL among medical students were better during the COVID-19 pandemic period. Our observations confirmed that the immediate implementation of e-learning could protect against the deterioration of mental health and quality of life in first-year medical students during possible future epidemic crises. |
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spelling | pubmed-95655952022-10-15 The Association between COVID-19 Pandemic and the Quality of Life of Medical Students in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland Szemik, Szymon Gajda, Maksymilian Gładyś, Aleksandra Kowalska, Małgorzata Int J Environ Res Public Health Article (1) Background: Since the COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly in 2020, medical universities have been affected by a particular crisis. Due to the increased risk of SARS CoV-2 transmission, the authorities of medical faculties all over the world, including Poland, started to minimize direct contact between students. The objective of the paper is to identify and assess determinants of the quality of life among medical students in Poland before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2) Methods: We analyzed data obtained in a cross-sectional study performed among three groups of students tested in three consecutive research periods: period before the COVID-19 pandemic, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period and the COVID-19 pandemic period following lockdown. (3) Results: The total number of participants was 1098. We identified that the research period before the COVID-19 pandemic was the risk factor for lower quality of life in terms of the somatic and environmental domains. It was also confirmed that determinants such as poor financial situation, low frequency of physical activity and bad self-declared health status harmed the QoL scores in all domains. (4) Conclusions: The obtained results confirmed that better financial situation, higher physical activity and better self-declared health status were statistically significant factors improving the quality of life of first-year medical students in Poland. The findings of our study also showed that the declared somatic and environmental domains of QoL among medical students were better during the COVID-19 pandemic period. Our observations confirmed that the immediate implementation of e-learning could protect against the deterioration of mental health and quality of life in first-year medical students during possible future epidemic crises. MDPI 2022-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9565595/ /pubmed/36231191 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191911888 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Szemik, Szymon Gajda, Maksymilian Gładyś, Aleksandra Kowalska, Małgorzata The Association between COVID-19 Pandemic and the Quality of Life of Medical Students in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland |
title | The Association between COVID-19 Pandemic and the Quality of Life of Medical Students in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland |
title_full | The Association between COVID-19 Pandemic and the Quality of Life of Medical Students in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland |
title_fullStr | The Association between COVID-19 Pandemic and the Quality of Life of Medical Students in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland |
title_full_unstemmed | The Association between COVID-19 Pandemic and the Quality of Life of Medical Students in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland |
title_short | The Association between COVID-19 Pandemic and the Quality of Life of Medical Students in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland |
title_sort | association between covid-19 pandemic and the quality of life of medical students in silesian voivodeship, poland |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9565595/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36231191 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191911888 |
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