Coping strategies of students for anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic in China: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: Background: COVID-19 has severely affected university students everywhere in the world. Due to fear of infection, government and local authorities in China immediately closed academic institutions and tried to find survival techniques to cope with market turbulence. COVID-19 was present in China at the end of 2019. However, little attention has been paid by researchers to coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic, and few measures were taken to assess the coping strategies of university students, specifically following the closure of their institutions. To address this gap, this study attempted to discover the coping strategies of Chinese students during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Methods: We conducted an online survey using a semi-structured questionnaire with a si

SUBMITTER: Nurunnabi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7682494 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature