The Road to Recovery: A Two-Year Longitudinal Analysis of Mental Health Among University Students During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
Rosie E Allen, Kevin D Hochard, Chathurika Kannangara, Jerome Carson, John Parkinson, Javad Salehi Fadardi, Yuka Kotozaki · 2024
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Rosie Allen and co-authors published this longitudinal study in 2024. University students' mental health suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic, but few studies tracked them afterward. The team surveyed 302 students three times between May 2020 and May 2022. Each round measured psychological distress, generalized anxiety, flourishing, and personal wellbeing. The design lets the authors separate the crisis period from the recovery that followed.
Distress spiked in May 2021, then fell back to its May 2020 level by the two-year mark. Anxiety eased gradually across the whole period. Yet both distress and anxiety stayed far worse than pre-pandemic norms from other studies. Flourishing scores remained very low, while life satisfaction and happiness inched up in the final year. The authors conclude that student mental health is still in crisis after the pandemic. They urge universities to keep supporting this cohort as it moves into working life.
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| CREATOR | Rosie E Allen, Kevin D Hochard, Chathurika Kannangara, Jerome Carson, John Parkinson, Javad Salehi Fadardi, Yuka Kotozaki |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |