Financial Loss and Depressive Symptoms in University Students During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparison Between 23 Countries
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11120/22:43923743
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.ssph-journal.org/articles/10.3389/ijph.2022.1604468/full" target="_blank" >https://www.ssph-journal.org/articles/10.3389/ijph.2022.1604468/full</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2022.1604468" target="_blank" >10.3389/ijph.2022.1604468</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Financial Loss and Depressive Symptoms in University Students During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparison Between 23 Countries
Original language description
Objectives: To assess the association between students' financial loss and depressive symptoms during the first wave of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and whether this association varied by countries having different levels of lockdown measures.Methods: This cross-sectional survey, conducted in spring 2020, included 91,871 students from 23 countries. Depressive symptoms were measured using the shortened Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale and information on lockdowns retrieved from the COVID-19 government response tracker. The association between financial loss and depressive symptoms was investigated estimating prevalence ratios (PR) with multilevel Poisson models.Results: Some 13% of students suffered financial loss during the lockdown and 52% had a relatively high depression score, with large between-countries differences. Minimally and maximally adjusted models showed a 35% (PR = 1.35, 95% Confidence Interval (CI) = 1.29-1.42) and 31% (PR = 1.31, 95% CI = 1.26-1.37) higher prevalence of depressive symptoms in students who lost economic resources compared to students with stable economic resources. No substantial differences in the association were found across countries.Conclusion: Depressive symptoms were more frequent among students who suffered financial loss during the pandemic. Policy makers should consider this issue in the implementation of COVID-19 mitigating measures.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Public Health
ISSN
1661-8556
e-ISSN
1661-8564
Volume of the periodical
67
Issue of the periodical within the volume
"Article Number: 1604468"
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
1-10
UT code for WoS article
000867440600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85135057457