The Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Anxiety, Death Anxiety and Somatic Symptoms in University Students.
Objective: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which was first identified in Wuhan, China's Hubei province in December 2019, and affected the whole world, although it may seem that it affects the elderly and its comorbid population more seriously, as the data on the disease increased, it was o...
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| description | Objective: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which was first identified in Wuhan, China's Hubei province in December 2019, and affected the whole world, although it may seem that it affects the elderly and its comorbid population more seriously, as the data on the disease increased, it was observed that the disease significantly affected young and non-comorbid people as well.
Material and Method:789 students consisting of two year degree and undergraduate university students who have formal education in İstanbul province were included in the research. In the research, a data collection tool consisting of four parts, namely Sociodemographic Data Form, Health Anxiety Scale (HAS), Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) and DSM-5 Level 2 Physical Symptoms Scale (PSS) were used.
Results: it was determined that as students’ health anxiety levels were 31.9%, death anxiety levels were 48.3%, and physical symptom severity levels were 32.6%. The fact that the person has a COVID-19 contact history and hospital application or hospitalization in near of kin and the test is positive, makes a significant impact in effect of health anxiety on death anxiety and physical symptom severity and the effect of death anxiety on bodily symptom severity.
Conclusion: When the psychiatric results of the pandemic were evaluated, it was found that the students had below the average health anxiety and physical symptom severity and moderate death anxiety. Therefore, this result shows that the young population also has serious mental uneasiness. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b9cfaed96efc4fda910688fc464de7052023-03-24T19:43:25ZengRabia YılmazJournal of Contemporary Medicine2667-71802021-05-0111332332910.16899/jcm.8786711809The Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Anxiety, Death Anxiety and Somatic Symptoms in University Students.Seyyide Şifa Göktaş0Lütfiye Söğütlü1UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCESUNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCESObjective: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which was first identified in Wuhan, China's Hubei province in December 2019, and affected the whole world, although it may seem that it affects the elderly and its comorbid population more seriously, as the data on the disease increased, it was observed that the disease significantly affected young and non-comorbid people as well. Material and Method:789 students consisting of two year degree and undergraduate university students who have formal education in İstanbul province were included in the research. In the research, a data collection tool consisting of four parts, namely Sociodemographic Data Form, Health Anxiety Scale (HAS), Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) and DSM-5 Level 2 Physical Symptoms Scale (PSS) were used. Results: it was determined that as students’ health anxiety levels were 31.9%, death anxiety levels were 48.3%, and physical symptom severity levels were 32.6%. The fact that the person has a COVID-19 contact history and hospital application or hospitalization in near of kin and the test is positive, makes a significant impact in effect of health anxiety on death anxiety and physical symptom severity and the effect of death anxiety on bodily symptom severity. Conclusion: When the psychiatric results of the pandemic were evaluated, it was found that the students had below the average health anxiety and physical symptom severity and moderate death anxiety. Therefore, this result shows that the young population also has serious mental uneasiness.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1571480covid-19pandemisağlık anksiyetesiölüm kaygısıbedensel belirtilercovid-19pandemiahealth anxietydeath anxietysomatic symtoms |
| spellingShingle | Seyyide Şifa Göktaş Lütfiye Söğütlü The Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Anxiety, Death Anxiety and Somatic Symptoms in University Students. Journal of Contemporary Medicine covid-19 pandemi sağlık anksiyetesi ölüm kaygısı bedensel belirtiler covid-19 pandemia health anxiety death anxiety somatic symtoms |
| title | The Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Anxiety, Death Anxiety and Somatic Symptoms in University Students. |
| title_full | The Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Anxiety, Death Anxiety and Somatic Symptoms in University Students. |
| title_fullStr | The Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Anxiety, Death Anxiety and Somatic Symptoms in University Students. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Anxiety, Death Anxiety and Somatic Symptoms in University Students. |
| title_short | The Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Anxiety, Death Anxiety and Somatic Symptoms in University Students. |
| title_sort | effect of covid 19 pandemic on health anxiety death anxiety and somatic symptoms in university students |
| topic | covid-19 pandemi sağlık anksiyetesi ölüm kaygısı bedensel belirtiler covid-19 pandemia health anxiety death anxiety somatic symtoms |
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