The Impact of the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Employment Decisions of Medical Students in North China
Background: The outbreak of severe respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) has led to long periods of social isolation for individuals across the world. Although medical students generally have a high prevalence of mental health problems, they have received less attention than other groups c...
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Feng Gao Feng Gao Feng Gao Shu-xin Jiao Ya-qiong Bi Zi-yi Huang Pei Wang Bo-yan Zhang Jing Fang Rui-lan Han Lei Fan Min-jie Wang Xiao-li Lv Jun Li Yu-xia Hu Meng-di Zhang Qing Qiao Xue Zhao Dan Li Zhi-bin Xiao Fu-hou Chang Tu-ya Bai |
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Feng Gao Feng Gao Feng Gao Shu-xin Jiao Ya-qiong Bi Zi-yi Huang Pei Wang Bo-yan Zhang Jing Fang Rui-lan Han Lei Fan Min-jie Wang Xiao-li Lv Jun Li Yu-xia Hu Meng-di Zhang Qing Qiao Xue Zhao Dan Li Zhi-bin Xiao Fu-hou Chang Tu-ya Bai The Impact of the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Employment Decisions of Medical Students in North China Frontiers in Psychiatry SARS-CoV-2 anxiety stress medical career academic burden |
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The Impact of the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Employment Decisions of Medical Students in North China |
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The Impact of the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Employment Decisions of Medical Students in North China |
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The Impact of the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Employment Decisions of Medical Students in North China |
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The Impact of the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Employment Decisions of Medical Students in North China |
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The Impact of the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Employment Decisions of Medical Students in North China |
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impact of the sars-cov-2 pandemic on the mental health and employment decisions of medical students in north china |
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Frontiers in Psychiatry |
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Background: The outbreak of severe respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) has led to long periods of social isolation for individuals across the world. Although medical students generally have a high prevalence of mental health problems, they have received less attention than other groups concerning the impact of SARS-COV-2. Therefore, the present study investigated the mental health status, risk factors, and protective factors for mental health problems in medical students in North China during the SARS-COV-2 pandemic.Methods: A WeChat-based survey, which included the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 and measures of social demographics, was performed twice. Risk and protective factors were identified by binary logistic regression analysis.Results: A total of 702 effective questionnaires were collected in two separate surveys. In total, 24.55% of medical students were suffering anxiety to different degrees of severity, 13.18% were suffering depression in the first survey, and 3.71% wanted to give up working in primary medical care during the SARS-COV-2 pandemic in the second survey. In contrast, during the SARS-COV-2 pandemic, a risk factor for anxiety and depression was gender which is male, while being knowledgeable about the SARS-COV-2 pandemic and having a lower academic burden were both protective factors.Conclusions: Measures are required to prevent increases in mental health problems in medical students. Our findings suggest that increasing knowledge about the SARS-COV-2 pandemic and reducing academic burden in medical students is extremely important during the SARS-COV-2 pandemic. |
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SARS-CoV-2 anxiety stress medical career academic burden |
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doaj-69e030b0cd024044bedeb809fd2d09472021-07-19T07:14:15ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402021-07-011210.3389/fpsyt.2021.641138641138The Impact of the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Employment Decisions of Medical Students in North ChinaFeng Gao0Feng Gao1Feng Gao2Shu-xin Jiao3Ya-qiong Bi4Zi-yi Huang5Pei Wang6Bo-yan Zhang7Jing Fang8Rui-lan Han9Lei Fan10Min-jie Wang11Xiao-li Lv12Jun Li13Yu-xia Hu14Meng-di Zhang15Qing Qiao16Xue Zhao17Dan Li18Zhi-bin Xiao19Fu-hou Chang20Tu-ya Bai21Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Institute of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia Jinshan Development Area, Hohhot, ChinaInner Mongolia Autonomous Region Engineering Research Center of New Pharmaceutical Screening, Inner Mongolia Jinshan Development Area, Hohhot, ChinaTransformation Innovation Platform for Clinical Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia Jinshan Development Area, Hohhot, ChinaInstitute of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia Jinshan Development Area, Hohhot, ChinaInner Mongolia Autonomous Region Academy of Traditional Medicine, Hohhot, ChinaInstitute of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia Jinshan Development Area, Hohhot, ChinaInstitute of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia Jinshan Development Area, Hohhot, ChinaInstitute of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia Jinshan Development Area, Hohhot, ChinaInstitute of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia Jinshan Development Area, Hohhot, ChinaDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, Institute of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia Jinshan Development Area, Hohhot, ChinaInstitute of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia Jinshan Development Area, Hohhot, ChinaDepartment of Basic Medicine Institute of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia Jinshan Development Area, Hohhot, ChinaInstitute of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia Jinshan Development Area, Hohhot, ChinaThe Center for New Drug Safety Evaluation and Research of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia Jinshan Development Area, Hohhot, ChinaThe Center for New Drug Safety Evaluation and Research of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia Jinshan Development Area, Hohhot, ChinaInstitute of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia Jinshan Development Area, Hohhot, ChinaSales Department, Tianjin Tasly Pharmaceutical Commercial Co.Ltd., Tianjin, ChinaDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, Institute of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia Jinshan Development Area, Hohhot, ChinaDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, Institute of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia Jinshan Development Area, Hohhot, ChinaDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, Institute of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia Jinshan Development Area, Hohhot, ChinaInstitute of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia Jinshan Development Area, Hohhot, ChinaInstitute of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia Jinshan Development Area, Hohhot, ChinaBackground: The outbreak of severe respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) has led to long periods of social isolation for individuals across the world. Although medical students generally have a high prevalence of mental health problems, they have received less attention than other groups concerning the impact of SARS-COV-2. Therefore, the present study investigated the mental health status, risk factors, and protective factors for mental health problems in medical students in North China during the SARS-COV-2 pandemic.Methods: A WeChat-based survey, which included the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 and measures of social demographics, was performed twice. Risk and protective factors were identified by binary logistic regression analysis.Results: A total of 702 effective questionnaires were collected in two separate surveys. In total, 24.55% of medical students were suffering anxiety to different degrees of severity, 13.18% were suffering depression in the first survey, and 3.71% wanted to give up working in primary medical care during the SARS-COV-2 pandemic in the second survey. In contrast, during the SARS-COV-2 pandemic, a risk factor for anxiety and depression was gender which is male, while being knowledgeable about the SARS-COV-2 pandemic and having a lower academic burden were both protective factors.Conclusions: Measures are required to prevent increases in mental health problems in medical students. Our findings suggest that increasing knowledge about the SARS-COV-2 pandemic and reducing academic burden in medical students is extremely important during the SARS-COV-2 pandemic.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.641138/fullSARS-CoV-2anxietystressmedical careeracademic burden |