The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of First-Year Undergraduate Students Studying at a Major Canadian University: A Successive Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on first year undergraduate student mental health.

Methods

As part of the Queen's University U-Flourish Student Well-Being and Academic Success study, three successive cohorts of students entering undergraduate studies in 2018 (pre-pandemic), 2019 (transitional), and 2020 (during pandemic) completed electronic surveys at entry and completion of first year. Validated self-report measures were used to assess mental health status including symptom levels of anxiety, depression, and insomnia, self-harm and frequency of substance use. Propensity matching and multivariable log-binomial regression were used in comparisons of mental health indicators across the cohorts.

Results

Clinically significant symptoms of

SUBMITTER: King N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9096012 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature