Discussion on Mental Health Problems Related to COVID-19 for College Students in China

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220105.127How to use a DOI?

Keywords

College Student; COVID-19; Mental Health Problems; Vulnerable Population

Abstract

Mental health problems are common and these problem share a greatly influence on people’s thinking, mood, and behavior. Mental health problems can be prevented and recovered by intervention and treatments. Chinese college students are reported to be vulnerable to psychological problems. Since COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) broke out, studies found that students have been experiencing higher levels of mental health problems including anxiety, stress, and depression with a high incidence rate. This article reviews and analyzes the potential risk factors reported in various studies including the vulnerable populations (people who encounter the infection of their families, friends or other relatives, women and people with prior mental health problems), more extensive attention paid to media, lower perceived support from society and medical students were reviewed and analyzed. Then the corresponding solutions were discussed. Government and schools should pay more special attention to those typically vulnerable populations, release official updates at regular intervals, help students to aware of the effects of complicated information online and reduce the time directly focused on social media, and provide more social support to those students; sufficient training on dealing with COVID-19 and regular supervision on those students’ health should be added for medical students. The specific psychological intervention strategies for prevention and surveillance of Chinese college students’ psychological health will get better in the future.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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AU  - Shuyu Rao
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/17
TI  - Discussion on Mental Health Problems Related to COVID-19 for College Students in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 692
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SN  - 2352-5398
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