Background: People choosing to follow a university degree are exposed to different degrees of stress and anxiety that might be higher of lower depending on the level of study, field of interest and even age and sex. It is a well-known fact that social isolation with little to no contact with other people has an impact on the mental health of any individual.Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of anxiety and its gastrointestinal impact as a consequence of the lockdown caused by Covid-19.Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted by using a single questionnaire representing a variety of the Hamilton scale for anxiety (HAM-A).Results: Out of a total of 38 results, 17 results were excluded as they were composed of people that are not students, but belong to the working and retired class.Conclusions: There seems to be a correlation between anxiety levels, gastrointestinal manifestations and social isolation following the lockdown due to coronavirus outbreak, as observed in this preliminary study of ours in Romanian students, considering that more than half of the participants (61,91%) have reported mild to severe symptoms in all 14 categories of the scale and we observed that more than 50% of participants have reported mild to moderate severity in all of the items within the gastrointestinal category. 64/Bulletin of Integrative Psychiatry New Series September 2020 Year XXVI No. 3 (86)
Considering the previous experience of our group in studying both the neuropsychiatric disorders, as well as the gastrointestinal ones, and the interaction between these type of manifestations, and also having in mind the current COVID-19 pandemics, in the current short editorial we will focus our attention on describing very briefly some of our preliminary data regarding the neuropsychiatric and gastrointestinal manifestations in COVID-19.
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