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Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on College and University Students: A Global Health and Education Problem

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Mudenda, Steward, Zulu, Annie, Phiri, Maureen Nkandu, Ngazimbi, Moses, Mufwambi, Webrod, Kasanga, Maisa, Banda, Michelo·2020·Aquademia
DOI 10.29333/aquademia/8494
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The origin of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan China has been reported to be one of the lethal pandemics the world has ever faced. Though the first case was reported in December 2019, COVID-19 spread so rapidly to the majority of countries by March 2020 and was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. COVID-19 pandemic led to increased morbidity and mortality within a very short period of time. COVID-19 pandemic caused schools, colleges, and universities to come to a closure in order to avoid further transmission and spread of the disease. The physical closure of schools, colleges, and universities has impacted students in several ways in that some students have reported suffering from anxiety, depression, and mood swings. COVID-19 has disrupted social interaction among students and has affected their family life. These impacts on students will eventually affect their academic performance and progression. Thus, learning institutions should put in measures to help students recover from the impacts of COVID-19.

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  • Undergraduate students in lockdown suffered increasing severity of anxiety and depressive symptoms, manifested in poorer sleep quality, poorer academic performance and increased suicidal thoughts.

    “undergraduate students in lockdown, namely that they suffered increasing severity of anxiety and depressive symptoms [48], manifested in poorer sleep quality, poorer academic performance and increased suicidal thoughts in the university populations [49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58].”

    From Relationships between psychopathology, psychological process variables, and sociodemographic variables and comparison of quarantined and non-quarantined groups of malaysian university students in the covid-19 pandemic (2021) · cites this paper as [50]

    The Abstract reports that some students experienced anxiety and depression after college and university closures, and that preexisting mental health conditions may worsen. It does not establish increasing severity of both anxiety and depressive symptoms specifically among undergraduates in lockdown. The sleep, academic-performance, and suicidal-thoughts clause is attached to other citations, not this one. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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Authors
Mudenda, S., Zulu, A., Phiri, M. N., Ngazimbi, M., Mufwambi, W., Kasanga, M., & Banda, M.
Affiliations
  • University of Zambia (ZM)
  • University Teaching Hospital (ZM)
  • Zhengzhou University (CN)
Corresponding author
Mudenda, Steward
ORCID
Venue
Aquademia
Publisher
Modestum Ltd
Published
2020-08-30
Volume
4
Issue
2
Pages
ep20026
ISSN
2542-4874 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.29333/aquademia/8494
OpenAlex
W3081716504
Cited by
46
References
12
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 1
FWCI
3.67
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
Aquademia (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Social Sciences › Education › Education during COVID-19 pandemic
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Student Stress and Coping
Keywords
COVID-19 pandemic, university students, school closures, mental health, anxiety, depression, academic performance, social isolation, family life, higher education disruption

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