解释国际学生在COVID-19封锁期间经历的创伤性压力
SunHee J Eissenstat1, Ni Gao1, Annmarie Wacha-Montes2
1Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counselling Professions, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.
Journal of American college health : J of ACH
|March 3, 2025
概括
国际学生可能面临的创伤性压力从COVID-19疫情封锁,如果精神健康被忽视. 管理感知压力和感染风险可以减轻这种影响.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
背景情况:
- 在全球范围内,COVID-19大流行和相关的封锁带来了前所未有的挑战.
- 国际学生面临着独特的压力因素,包括社会隔离,学术中断和健康问题.
- 了解对这一弱势群体的心理影响对于开发有针对性的支持至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 在COVID-19封锁期间调查国际学生的心理健康和创伤性压力之间的关系.
- 在这种关联中识别介导因素,例如感知到的压力和感染风险.
- 在公共卫生危机期间为国际学生提供大学支持战略的信息.
主要方法:
- 美国一所大学对402名国际学生进行了匿名在线调查.
- 使用描述性统计分析来总结参与者的特征和经验.
- 使用结构方程建模来检查变量之间的拟议关系.
主要成果:
- 在被忽视的心理健康和与COVID-19封锁相关的创伤性压力增加之间发现了显著的关联.
- 感知到的压力和感知到的COVID-19感染风险显著介导了心理健康和创伤性压力之间的关系.
- 已经存在心理健康漏洞的学生被确定为一个特别有风险的群体.
结论:
- 大学必须主动解决受疫情相关封锁影响的国际学生中创伤性压力的可能性.
- 干预措施应侧重于支持心理健康状况脆弱的学生.
- 管理感知到的压力和感染风险是减轻未来流行病中创伤性压力的关键策略.
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