1.Fear-related emotional disorder in response to coronavirus disease 2019 in college students
WANG Yue ; YANG Yuanyuan ; LI Shaowen ; LEI Xiaomei ; YANG Yufeng
Journal of Preventive Medicine 2020;32(5):446-449
Objective:
To understand and explore the fear-related emotional disorder and its influencing factors among college students during the prevalence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), in order to provide reference for the further health education and psychological intervention.
Methods:
A self-designed questionnaire for general data and Psychological Questionnaires for Emergent Events of Public Health (PQEEPH) were typed in www.wjx.cn and sent out to the students of four univerties in Xi'an by WeChat from February 7th to 9th,2020. The status and influencing factors of fear-related emotional disorder in response to COVID-19 were analyzed.
Results:
Totally 1 546 valid questionnaire were collected. The average age of the students was (20.24±1.60)years old. There were 761 males(49.22%)and 785(50.78%)females;499 medical students (32.27%)and 1 047 non-medical students(67.72%). The average score of fear dimension was 0.90±0.59,which was the highest in PQEEPH. Moreover, 280 students had fear-related emotional deviance,accounting for 18.11%,and 57 students had fear-related emotional disorder,accounting for 3.69%. The rate of fear-related emotional disorder was significantly higher in non-medical students(4.58%)than in medical students(1.80%,P<0.05). The rate of fear-related emotional disorder was significantly higher in the students who considered themselves close to COVID-19(4.22%)and at risk of COVID-19(5.45%) than in the students who did not(1.94% and 0.98%,both P<0.05).
Conclusions
Totally 3.69% of the students from universities in Xi'an suffer from fear-related emotional disorder in response to COVID-19. The students who do not major in medicine are prone to developing fear-related emotional disorder.
2.Psychological responses and related factors of college students in Shaan’xi during COVID-19 outbreak
YANG Yuanyuan, WANG Yue, LI Shaowen, LEI Xiaomei, YANG Yufeng
Chinese Journal of School Health 2020;41(5):664-667
Objective:
To explore the psychological responses and related factors of college students in Shaan’xi during the outbreak of COVID-19, in order to provide reference for the psychological intervention for college students.
Methods:
A self-designed general data questionnaire and Psychological Questionnaires for Emergent Events of Public Health(PQEEPH) were sent out to students in public university aged 18 to 28 years by Wechat APP from February 7th to 9th, 2020. Univariate and Logistic analysis were used to analyze the influencing factors associated with NCP.
Results:
The scores of the five factors on the PQEEPH scale were (0.29±0.48) for depression, (0.27±0.46) for neurasthenia, (0.92±0.60) for fear, (0.15±0.34) for obsessive-anxiety, and (0.26±0.44) for hypochondria,The score of fear factors were the highest. And 15.4% had depressive emotional deviation, accounting for the highest proportion of emotional deviation, and the proportion of compulsive anxiety emotional disorder was highest, which accounting for 6.4%. Logistic regression analysis showed that the higher grades were risk factors for depression (OR=1.61, 95%CI=1.05-2.47), obsessive anxiety (OR=1.56, 95%CI=1.05-2.31) and hypochondria (OR=2.01, 95%CI=1.16-3.47) disorders, Non-medical specialties is risk factor for fear disorders (OR=2.16, 95%CI=1.18-3.95),not believing oneself to be in danger in the face of the epidemic was a protective factor for five types of mood disorders (OR=0.17-0.51), and residence in towns and villages was a protective factor for neurasticity disorders (OR=0.58, 95%CI=0.38-0.87), the gender of female was the protective factor of hypochondria emotional disorder (OR=0.34, 95%CI=0.19-0.62)(P<0.05).
Conclusion
During outbreak of COVID-19, psychological intervention counselling and health education of college students should be strengthened. Moreover, psychological problems need be screened in time for intervention, so as to reduce panic and other adverse psychological conditions of students.