Mental health of US undergraduate and graduate students before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Differences across sociodemographic groups.

ABSTRACT: The purposes of this study were to assess differences between sociodemographic groups in student mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, to investigate whether the pandemic disproportionately affected certain groups, and to examine between-group differences in pandemic-related stressors. Data from Minnesota undergraduate and graduate students who completed an online survey in 2020 (N = 2,067) were compared to data collected from students in 2018 (N = 3,627). The survey assessed days of poor mental health, stress, stress management ability, days of adequate sleep, and pandemic-related stressors (2020 only). Multivariate analyses of variance assessed differences between study years (2020 vs. 2018), sociodemographic groups (gender, sexual orientation, race, disability, internat

SUBMITTER: Liu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8805912 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature