Background: In keeping with nation-wide efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19, Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) made the move towards online teaching to ensure students continue to receive their education while minimizing the risks of exposure and community spread of COVID-19. We investigated teaching and learning experiences, physical and mental health of undergraduate students and academic staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study on undergraduate students and academic staff in a health science faculty using a self-developed pretested questionnaire through anonymous online data collection method.Results: 56 academics (100% response rate) and 279 students (83.3% response rate) participated. The positive experiences as reported by students include: becoming independent (72.8%), adapting to online learning (67.4%) and sudden changes (62.0%), learning to manage scheduling (58.8%), and being self-motivated (57.7%); while academics’ positive experiences included new teaching techniques (50.0%), flexible schedules (50.0%), remote teaching (48.2%) and improved teaching tools (46.4%). Students reported negative experiences as being distracted at home (72.0%), feeling of uncertainty with regards to examinations (66.7%), and getting a slow response from lecturers (55.6%). With regards to health, both students and academics reported stress, anxiety, loneliness, back problems, and eye strain.Conclusion: In this challenging period towards an abrupt shift to online teaching, students and academic staff of UBD identified both positive and negative experiences including the impact on their physical and mental health. Our findings are important to provide the evidence for online pedagogical benefits and can serve to promote the enhancement and adaptation of digital technology in education. Our findings also aim to promote the importance of addressing physical and mental health issues of the university community’s well-being through provision of emotional and mental health support and appropriate programs.
Adolescents pregnant mothers can potentially have a problem related to their immature physics and psychology. Their health-care-seeking practice is essential to ensure that adolescent pregnant mothers receive adequate care during their pregnancy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, online media should be perceived as an alternative way to help adolescents seek care during pregnancy. This study aimed to explore the experiences of pregnant adolescent mothers who had practiced health-care seeking and followed online counseling using WhatsApp groups. This qualitative survey recruited 16 Indonesian pregnant mothers aged 15-19 who had followed WhatsApp online counseling. An open-ended questionnaire was used to collect data, which were analyzed using thematic content analysis. There were three themes related to pregnant adolescent care-seeking practices using WhatsApp groups: experience, benefits, and advice and hope. The experience had three sub-theme: present experiences, previous experiences, and hindering factors. The benefits had sub-themes: benefits of WhatsApp counseling and benefits of Group WhastApp. Their hopes and advices were: no advice, be polite, be consistent, be patient, and be duplicated by others. Adolescent pregnant mothers had good experiences in practicing health-care seeking using WhatsApp groups. They were more enthusiastic about following the counseling process and found beneficial information and solution regarding their problem during pregnancy. The findings show that providing WhatsApp groups for adolescent pregnant mothers could benefit them.
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