Temporal Network of Depressive Symptoms across College Students with Distinct Depressive Trajectories during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are marked differences in how individuals respond and adapt to depressive symptoms over time during the strain of public health emergencies; however, few studies have examined the interrelations between depressive symptoms in distinct depressive trajectories from the COVID-19 outbreak period to the COVID-19 control period. Therefore, this study conducted cross-lagged panel networks to investigate the temporal relationships between depressive symptoms across distinct depressive trajectories from the COVID-19 outbreak period (T1) to the COVID-19 control period (T2).

Methods

A total of 35,516 young participants from the College Students' Behavior and Health Cohort during the COVID-19 pandemic were included in the current study. Depressive symptoms were self-rep

SUBMITTER: Ma Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11921855 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature