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Anxiety among university students during the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong
Author(s) -
Wong Tze Wai,
Gao Yang,
Tam Wilson Wai San
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
stress and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1532-2998
pISSN - 1532-3005
DOI - 10.1002/smi.1116
Subject(s) - anxiety , psychology , covid-19 , university hospital , situated , medical education , medicine , clinical psychology , family medicine , psychiatry , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , artificial intelligence , computer science
Abstract A questionnaire survey was conducted during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic to assess the anxiety level and the perceived sources of stress among students from two universities where the outbreak occurred in the teaching hospital of one of the universities. The anxiety level caused by SARS in medical students at the teaching hospital was higher than in non‐medical students in the same university and lowest in students of the other university situated 20km away from the affected hospital. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.