Prevalence of depression, anxiety, stress and its relationship with knowledge about COVID-19 in medical and laboratory medicine students of Umm-Al-Qura University: a cross-sectional survey

The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

Research

Sadia Sultan¹  MD. Abu Bashar²  Mawaddah Tayeb³  Nouf M. Almasoudi³  Aisha Tabassum³  Ghadi W. Munshi³  Mohammad Shahid Iqbal³  Rahaf K. Matyuri³  Ibtesam Nomani⁴ 

[1] Clinical Science Department, Fakeeh College for Medical Sciences, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia;Department of Community Medicine and Family Medicine, AIIMS, Gorakhpur, U.P., India;Department of Laboratory Medicine, Umm-Al-Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia;Department of Nursing Practices, Faculty of Nursing, Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia;

关键词: COVID-19;    Mental health;    Anxiety;    Depression;    Stress;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s41983-022-00590-7

 received in 2022-05-26, accepted in 2022-11-20,  发布年份 2022

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

IntroductionCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has continued relentlessly for over one and half years now, causing a threat to life, fear of falling sick, helplessness, anxiety, depression and, pessimism about the future. There has been an increasing concern over student mental health in higher education. Our study was designed to measure current mental health status and its relationship with sociodemographic variables and level of knowledge about COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia.MethodA cross-sectional survey was conducted among laboratory medicine students of Makkah city, Saudi Arabia from October, 2020 to January, 21. A semi-structured questionnaire was circulated through mail and What’s App. Data collected included sociodemographic details and level of knowledge towards the COVID-19 among the students. Depression anxiety and stress-21 item (DASS 21) was used to assess psychological status.ResultOur study reported 51.4% depressive symptoms, 57.9% anxiety symptoms, and 48.5% stress in the study participants. History of being hospitalized with COVID-19 and ICU reported high anxiety (p = 0.0003) and depression scores (p = 0.04). Respiratory droplet as a mode of transmission revealed higher scores on anxiety subscale (p = 0.007), whereas surface contamination reported high score of stress (p = 0.004) and anxiety (p = 0.002). Knowing that COVID-19 can also clinically present with gastrointestinal symptoms was found to show high stress (p = 0.005) and anxiety (p = 0.01) scores than any other way of clinical presentation.ConclusionCOVID-19 is likely to cause negative effect on the psychological health of students.

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