Open AccessThe Psychological Wellbeing of University Students Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Ahmed Husain Ebrahim,
Ali Dhahi,
Mohamed A. Husain,
Haitham Jahrami
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
sultan qaboos university medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.258
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2075-0528
pISSN - 2075-051X
DOI - 10.18295/squmj.6.2021.081
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , anxiety , pandemic , medline , meta analysis , web of science , scopus , confidence interval , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , family medicine , psychiatry , pathology , disease , outbreak , political science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , economics , macroeconomics
This review aims to summarize the current evidence relating to university students’ psychological wellbeing amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. A scoping review using PRISMA-ScR guideline (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews) was first conducted to determine if the evidence can be systematically reviewed and meta-analyzed. The search was executed via Google Scholar (Google LLC, Mountain View, CA, USA), MEDLINE/PubMed (US National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA), Science Direct (Elsevier, Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Scopus (Elsevier, Amsterdam, the Netherlands), and Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA). A total of 90 original articles were selected for the scoping review. Meta-analysis of a total of 46284 cases revealed an overall pooled prevalence rate for anxiety symptoms was 29.1% [95% CI: 20.9, 39.0] (K=9, N=22357), and 23.2% [95% CI: 15.7, 32.9] (K=12, N=23927) for depression symptoms. COVID-19 had a significant impact on university students' psychological wellbeing.
Keywords: Adolescents; Psychological distress; Mental health; Pandemic; nCov; SARS-COV-2