A Comparison of Depression and Anxiety among University Students in Nine Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216305:26510/21:PU141117

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10132882" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10132882</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10132882" target="_blank" >10.3390/jcm10132882</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A Comparison of Depression and Anxiety among University Students in Nine Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Original language description

The mental health of young adults, particularly students, is at high risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study was to examine differences in mental health between university students in nine countries during the pandemic. The study encompassed 2349 university students (69% female) from Colombia, the Czech Republic (Czechia), Germany, Israel, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Participants underwent the following tests: Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-8), Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7), Exposure to COVID-19 (EC-19), Perceived Impact of Coronavirus (PIC) on students&apos; well-being, Physical Activity (PA), and General Self-Reported Health (GSRH). The one-way ANOVA showed significant differences between countries. The highest depression and anxiety risk occurred in Turkey, the lowest depression in the Czech Republic and the lowest anxiety in Germany. The χ2 independence test showed that EC-19, PIC, and GSRH were associated with anxiety and depression in most of the countries, whereas PA was associated in less than half of the countries. Logistic regression showed distinct risk factors for each country. Gender and EC-19 were the most frequent predictors of depression and anxiety across the countries. The role of gender and PA for depression and anxiety is not universal and depends on cross-cultural differences. Students&apos; mental health should be addressed from a cross-cultural perspective.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Clinical Medicine

ISSN

2077-0383

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

13

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

2882

UT code for WoS article

000671287500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85114076643