Subjective mental well-being among higher education students in Finland during the first wave of COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Increased mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic have become a major concern among young adults. Our aim was to understand which COVID-19-related questions predicted mental well-being during the outbreak.

Methods

Two cross-sectional datasets were used. The primary dataset was collected in May 2020 (n = 1001), during the initial COVID-19 outbreak, and the secondary in April 2019 (n = 10866), before the pandemic. Mental well-being was assessed with the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale. Relationships between mental well-being and COVID-19-related questions were investigated with lasso regression. As an exploratory analysis, two-way ANOVAs were used to compare mental well-being before and during the outbreak.

Results

Higher l

SUBMITTER: Sarasjarvi KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9361411 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature