After the Pandemic: The Future of Italian Medicine. The Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on Medical and Other Healthcare-Related Degrees Students
Objective: The study aimed to explore the psychological symptoms and the readiness to fight the pandemic of the new generation of healthcare professionals: medical and other healthcare degree students.Methods: We enrolled 509 medical and healthcare-related degree students during the second outbreak...
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| author | Giacomo De Micheli Laura Vergani Laura Vergani Davide Mazzoni Giulia Marton Giulia Marton |
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| description | Objective: The study aimed to explore the psychological symptoms and the readiness to fight the pandemic of the new generation of healthcare professionals: medical and other healthcare degree students.Methods: We enrolled 509 medical and healthcare-related degree students during the second outbreak of COVID-19 in Italy. We have examined their psychological symptoms using the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and their readiness to fight the pandemic together with their academic career status, their relationship with the university, and their emotional reactions to the pandemic with Visual Analog Scales.Results: We retrieved a GHQ mean of 21.65 (SD = 40.63) and readiness to fight the pandemic mean of 53.58 (SD = 31.49). Perceived control affects variables: a negative effect on psychological symptoms and a positive effect on the willingness to fight the pandemic. The other variables with an impact were stress, loneliness, and anger that had a significant and positive impact on psychological symptoms. Age and concern for patients had a significant positive impact on readiness to fight for the pandemic, while years of attendance had a significant but negative impact.Conclusion: Universities and Institutions should consider the impact of the pandemic on students, in particular, for its effect on their mental health. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-581c21527e2f449abef10940a9f3f3642022-12-21T20:47:29ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782021-11-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.648419648419After the Pandemic: The Future of Italian Medicine. The Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on Medical and Other Healthcare-Related Degrees StudentsGiacomo De Micheli0Laura Vergani1Laura Vergani2Davide Mazzoni3Giulia Marton4Giulia Marton5Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, ItalyDepartment of Oncology and Hemato-Oncology, University of Milan, Milan, ItalyApplied Research Division for Cognitive and Psychological Science, European Institute of Oncology (IRCCS), Milan, ItalyDepartment of Oncology and Hemato-Oncology, University of Milan, Milan, ItalyDepartment of Oncology and Hemato-Oncology, University of Milan, Milan, ItalyApplied Research Division for Cognitive and Psychological Science, European Institute of Oncology (IRCCS), Milan, ItalyObjective: The study aimed to explore the psychological symptoms and the readiness to fight the pandemic of the new generation of healthcare professionals: medical and other healthcare degree students.Methods: We enrolled 509 medical and healthcare-related degree students during the second outbreak of COVID-19 in Italy. We have examined their psychological symptoms using the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and their readiness to fight the pandemic together with their academic career status, their relationship with the university, and their emotional reactions to the pandemic with Visual Analog Scales.Results: We retrieved a GHQ mean of 21.65 (SD = 40.63) and readiness to fight the pandemic mean of 53.58 (SD = 31.49). Perceived control affects variables: a negative effect on psychological symptoms and a positive effect on the willingness to fight the pandemic. The other variables with an impact were stress, loneliness, and anger that had a significant and positive impact on psychological symptoms. Age and concern for patients had a significant positive impact on readiness to fight for the pandemic, while years of attendance had a significant but negative impact.Conclusion: Universities and Institutions should consider the impact of the pandemic on students, in particular, for its effect on their mental health.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.648419/fullstudentshealth-care professionalsCOVID-19psychological symptomspandemicemotional reactions |
| spellingShingle | Giacomo De Micheli Laura Vergani Laura Vergani Davide Mazzoni Giulia Marton Giulia Marton After the Pandemic: The Future of Italian Medicine. The Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on Medical and Other Healthcare-Related Degrees Students Frontiers in Psychology students health-care professionals COVID-19 psychological symptoms pandemic emotional reactions |
| title | After the Pandemic: The Future of Italian Medicine. The Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on Medical and Other Healthcare-Related Degrees Students |
| title_full | After the Pandemic: The Future of Italian Medicine. The Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on Medical and Other Healthcare-Related Degrees Students |
| title_fullStr | After the Pandemic: The Future of Italian Medicine. The Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on Medical and Other Healthcare-Related Degrees Students |
| title_full_unstemmed | After the Pandemic: The Future of Italian Medicine. The Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on Medical and Other Healthcare-Related Degrees Students |
| title_short | After the Pandemic: The Future of Italian Medicine. The Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on Medical and Other Healthcare-Related Degrees Students |
| title_sort | after the pandemic the future of italian medicine the psychological impact of covid 19 on medical and other healthcare related degrees students |
| topic | students health-care professionals COVID-19 psychological symptoms pandemic emotional reactions |
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