{"id":3218,"date":"2021-01-13T13:32:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T21:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2021-01-14T13:33:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T21:33:41","slug":"anxiety-depression-and-health-anxiety-in-undergraduate-students-living-in-initial-us-outbreak-hotspot-during-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/13\/anxiety-depression-and-health-anxiety-in-undergraduate-students-living-in-initial-us-outbreak-hotspot-during-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Anxiety, Depression, and Health Anxiety in Undergraduate Students Living in Initial US Outbreak \u201cHotspot\u201d during COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cross-sectional study of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of undergraduates (n=641) in a heavily impacted area in the US (New Jersey) found that nearly half (46%) of the students reported elevated psychological distress, including health anxiety (30%), general anxiety (22%), and depression (25%). Clinically-elevated general anxiety was associated with more common among females (OR=2.2), those with a COVID-19 case in their immediate social network (OR=2.3), students with underlying medical vulnerabilities (OR=2.0), and those with a recent experience of \u22653 viral symptoms (OR=3.4). Vigilance to viral symptoms and worry about coronavirus were also factors associated with more severe psychological distress.<\/p>\n<p><i>Kibbey et al. (Jan 12, 2021). Anxiety, Depression, and Health Anxiety in Undergraduate Students Living in Initial US Outbreak \u201cHotspot\u201d during COVID-19 Pandemic. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33433271\">https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33433271<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cross-sectional study of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of undergraduates (n=641) in a heavily impacted area in the US (New Jersey) found that nearly half (46%) of the students reported elevated psychological distress, including health anxiety (30%), general anxiety (22%), and depression (25%). Clinically-elevated general anxiety was associated with&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/13\/anxiety-depression-and-health-anxiety-in-undergraduate-students-living-in-initial-us-outbreak-hotspot-during-covid-19-pandemic\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[73,44],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-colleges","tag-mental-health-personal-impact","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3219,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions\/3219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}