Anxiety among university students during the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong

Wong, Tze Wai; Gao, Yang; Tam, Wilson W.S.

doi:10.1002/smi.1116

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“…Bayram and Bilgel (2008) reported high prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress, 27.1%, 47.1% and 27.0%, respectively, among a group of Turkish university students. This is consistent with other studies which reported high rates of psychological morbidity among university students globally (Adewuya et al, 2006;Ovuga et al, 2006;Tomoda et al, 2000;Wong et al, 2006). Some studies have shown some risk factors associated with these psychological problems.…”

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Correlates of depression, anxiety and stress among Malaysian university students

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Fadzil

Ismail

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Asian Journal of Psychiatry

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Correlates of depression, anxiety and stress among Malaysian university students

Shamsuddin

Fadzil

Ismail

et al. 2013

Asian Journal of Psychiatry

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“…Similar results were found in previous research on new disease outbreaks. For example, Wong, Gao, and Tam (2007) reported higher levels of anxiety in university students during the SARS epidemic, in particular among medicine students and students living in the area in which the infection spread more. Also Wheaton et al (2012) reported higher levels of anxiety in students in response to pandemic spread of H1N1.…”

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Differences between health workers and general population in risk perception, behaviors, and psychological distress related to COVID-19 spread in Italy.

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Gnagnarella²

2020

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In this study, we investigated the perception of risk and the worries about COVID-19 infection in both healthcare workers and general population in Italy. We studied the difference in risk perception in these two groups, and how this related to demographic variables and psychological factors such as stress, anxiety, and death anxiety. To this aim, we administered an online questionnaire about COVID-19 together with other questionnaires assessing the psychological condition of participants. First, we found that the exposition to infection risk, due to living area or job, increased the perceived stress and anxiety (i.e. medical staff in North Italy was more stressed and anxious respect to both medical- and non-medical participants from Center and South Italy). Then, we conducted hierarchical logistic regression models on our data to assess the response odds ratio relatively to each predictor on each dependent variable. We found that health workers reported higher risk perception, level of worry, and knowledge as related to COVID-19 infection compared to general population. Also psychological state, gender, and living area were important predictors of these factors. Instead, judgments about behaviors and containment rules were more linked to demographics, such as gender and alcohol consumption. We discussed these results in the light of risk factors for psychological distress and possible interventions to meet the psychological needs of healthcare workers.

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“…Accordingly, we designed the present study during the height of U.S. concerns about Ebola to better understand the psychological factors associated with Fearbola and engagement in Ebola-related safety behaviors. Informed by the limited body of recent research on anxiety among students in response to pandemic illnesses such as SARS (e.g., Wong et al 2007), avian flu (e.g., Lau et al 2008), and H1N1 (e.g., Wheaton et al 2012), we considered a variety of constructs that might predict the fear of Ebola, as we describe next.…”

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Tracing “Fearbola”: Psychological Predictors of Anxious Responding to the Threat of Ebola

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Serious illnesses such as Ebola are often highly publicized in the mass media and can be associated with varying levels of anxiety and compensatory safety behavior (e.g., avoidance of air travel). The present study investigated psychological processes associated with Ebola-related anxiety and safety behaviors during the outbreak in late 2014. Between October 30 and December 3, 2014, which encompassed the peak of concerns and of the media's attention to this particular outbreak, 107 university students completed a battery of measures assessing fear of Ebola, performance of safety behaviors, factual knowledge of the virus, and psychological variables hypothesized to predict Ebola-related fear. We found that while our sample was generally not very fearful of contracting Ebola, the fear of this disease was correlated with general distress, contamination cognitions, disgust sensitivity, body vigilance, and anxiety sensitivity-related physical concerns. Regression analyses further indicated that anxiety sensitivity related to physical concerns and the tendency to overestimate the severity of contamination were unique predictors of both Ebola fear and associated safety behaviors. Implications for how concerns over serious illness outbreaks can be conceptualized and clinically managed are discussed.

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Anxiety among university students during the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong

Cited by 148 publications

References 11 publications

Correlates of depression, anxiety and stress among Malaysian university students

Correlates of depression, anxiety and stress among Malaysian university students

Differences between health workers and general population in risk perception, behaviors, and psychological distress related to COVID-19 spread in Italy.

Tracing “Fearbola”: Psychological Predictors of Anxious Responding to the Threat of Ebola

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