A longitudinal comparison of college student mental health under the COVID-19 self-restraint policy in Japan

Shiratori, Yuki; Ogawa, Takafumi; Ota, Miho; Sodeyama, Noriko; Sakamoto, Tohru; Arai, Tetsuaki; Tachikawa, Hirokazu

doi:10.1016/j.jadr.2022.100314

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“…Finally, because we did not divide the participants into groups with and without remote teaching, we cannot show the relation between remote teaching and sleep duration directly. A recent study by the University of Tsukuba, Japan that screened for depression reported that mental health problems had doubled [ 26 ], and there may be other factors that influence students' sleeping habits, such as decreased physical activity, length of screen-viewing time, length of sunlight exposure time, psychological problems including depression, and the amount of alcohol consumption. Despite the above limitations, the participants' sleeping habits were examined longitudinally through this annual survey.…”

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Changes in the sleeping habits of Japanese university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a 3-year follow-up study

Hori

Shibata

Okajima

et al. 2023

BioPsychoSocial Med

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Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has greatly changed our daily life. Owing to the imposed restrictions, many educational facilities have introduced remote teaching. This study aims to clarify the association between remote teaching and Japanese university students' sleeping habits. Methods The participants were medical students at Aichi Medical University. We used data from an ongoing longitudinal sleeping habits survey. For the participants who enrolled in the university during 2018–2020, multilevel analyses of sleep duration during weekdays and weekends across 3 years were conducted, adjusting for sex, grade, place of stay, sleep problems and lifestyle habits. Results Among the students enrolled in the university, the data of 677 in 2018, 657 in 2019, and 398 in 2020 was available for analysis. The mean sleep duration during weekdays (in minutes) was 407.6 ± 60.3 in 2018, 406.9 ± 63.0 in 2019, and 417.3 ± 80.9 in 2020. The mean sleep duration during weekends (in minutes) was 494.5 ± 82.5 in 2018, 488.3 ± 87.9 in 2019, and 462.3 ± 96.4 in 2020. Multilevel analysis conducted for the 684 participants who enrolled during 2018–2020 showed that sleep duration during weekdays was associated with the place of stay and survey year. Moreover, students reported significantly longer sleep duration during weekdays in 2020 than in 2019, but no significant difference in sleep duration was found between 2018 and 2019. The other multilevel analysis found sleep duration during weekends to be associated with the survey year, sex and always doing something before going to bed. Sleep duration during weekends was shorter in 2020 than in 2019 and longer for male students and students who always do something before going to bed. Ten students were reported to have a delayed sleep phase in 2020. Conclusions Students' sleep duration increased during weekdays and decreased during weekends in 2020. This difference could be explained by the COVID-19 pandemic and the introduction of remote teaching.

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Changes in the sleeping habits of Japanese university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a 3-year follow-up study

Hori

Shibata

Okajima

et al. 2023

BioPsychoSocial Med

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“…A survey of 5,285 adults in the United States demonstrated that the incidence of adverse mental health symptoms during the later phase of the COVID-19 pandemic (September 2020) was higher than that in June 2020 ( Czeisler et al, 2021 ). Some studies depicted that mental health of college students deteriorated in the few months following the COVID-19 pandemic ( Lipson et al, 2022 ; Shiratori et al, 2022 ; von Keyserlingk et al, 2022 ). Some other evidence indicated a decrease in anxiety symptoms with time among university students ( Amendola et al, 2021 ), and some data shown that college students just experienced minor changes during the pandemic outbreak ( Pieh et al, 2021 ; Stamatis et al, 2022 ).…”

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Mental health status among non-medical college students returning to school during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zhanjiang city: A cross-sectional study

Deng¹,

Zhang

2023

Front. Psychol.

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The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought huge and continuous damage to mental health. The mental health of non-medical college students after returning to school remains largely unknown and the influencing factors were awaited to be deciphered. This cross-sectional study was launched among 1,083 non-medical students in Zhanjiang city by means of online survey (WeChat App) from August 1st, 2022 to August 7th, 2022. Knowledge about COVID-19 and attitude toward COVID-19 were assessed by using 7-items and 5-items questionnaires, respectively. Sleep quality, anxiety and depression symptoms were evaluated by Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI), Hamilton depression rating scale-17 (HDRS-17) and self-rating anxiety scale (SAS), respectively. The results showed that more than half of the participants were knowledgeable about COVID-19. The majority of the participants held positive attitude toward COVID-19. The data demonstrated that 6.8% students had poor sleep quality, and 1.86, 0.37 and 0.37% students had mild, moderate and severe anxiety, respectively. About 26.7, 4.7 and 1.7% students had minimal, mild–moderate and severe depression. Female students showed higher proportions of anxiety (p = 0.02) and depression (p < 0.0001) than male students. Students with monthly household income below 3,000 RMB were more vulnerable to anxiety (p = 0.017) and depression (p = 0.004). Correlation analysis and Multivariate logistic regression analysis results showed that lower grade was positively related with anxiety and depression. Female students, income lower than 3,000 RMB/month, poor knowledge about COVID-19 and negative attitude toward COVID-19 were associated with insomnia, anxiety and depression. This study indicated that during the COVID-19 pandemic, a majority of non-medical students returning to school remained good sleep quality and a small number of students suffered from depression and anxiety. To our knowledge, this is a novel study revealing the mental health of non-medical college students concerning COVID-19 in Zhanjiang.

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“…In recent years, various reports of mental health deterioration among college students were made during lockdowns and other behavioral restrictions that were implemented as a result of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic [60][61][62][63] . It was also reported that having a higher perception of health risk and being a woman are associated with a higher number and greater severity of negative feelings [60][61][62][63] . Lockdown and behavioral restriction require effortful restraint of behavior.…”

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Associations among perceived health competence, effortful control, self-control, and personality traits in Japanese university students

Yoshioka

Momoi

Mase

et al. 2023

Sci Rep

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Perceived health competence is thought to contribute to lifelong healthy behavior. However, the factors that affect perceived health competence have not been investigated. We investigated the associations among perceived health competence, effortful control, self-control, and personality traits in university students and proposed a model of how these factors affect perceived health competence. The participants were 320 Japanese university students who completed a questionnaire regarding their height, weight, perceived health competence, effortful control, self-control, and personality traits. The three-step multiple regression analysis showed that effortful control was positively associated with the perceived health competence, and self-control was positively with, and impulsivity was inversely associated with effortful control respectively, indicating that effortful control was an intermediate factor. Structural equation modeling showed a good fit for both genders, with a common path for both genders to perceived health competence via effortful control and a different involvement of personality traits for men and women. These results suggest that effortful control is directly associated with perceived health competence; in addition, both self-control and impulsiveness are indirectly associated with perceived health competence via effortful control.

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A longitudinal comparison of college student mental health under the COVID-19 self-restraint policy in Japan

Cited by 20 publications

References 24 publications

Changes in the sleeping habits of Japanese university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a 3-year follow-up study

Changes in the sleeping habits of Japanese university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a 3-year follow-up study

Mental health status among non-medical college students returning to school during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zhanjiang city: A cross-sectional study

Associations among perceived health competence, effortful control, self-control, and personality traits in Japanese university students

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