Predictors of well-being, future anxiety, and multiple recurrent health complaints among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of socioeconomic determinants, sense of coherence, and digital health literacy. An Italian cross-sectional study
The pandemic deeply changed young adults’ life. Lockdown period and the social restrictions dramatically affected university students’ mental health. The aim of our cross-sectional study was to describe psychological well-being, future anxiety (FA), and health complaints (HCs) in a sample of 3,001 s...
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| author | Chiara Lorini Chiara Lorini Giuseppe Cavallo Giuseppe Cavallo Virginia Vettori Virginia Vettori Primo Buscemi Giulia Ciardi Patrizio Zanobini Patrizio Zanobini Orkan Okan Kevin Dadaczynski Kevin Dadaczynski Vieri Lastrucci Vieri Lastrucci Guglielmo Bonaccorsi Guglielmo Bonaccorsi |
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| description | The pandemic deeply changed young adults’ life. Lockdown period and the social restrictions dramatically affected university students’ mental health. The aim of our cross-sectional study was to describe psychological well-being, future anxiety (FA), and health complaints (HCs) in a sample of 3,001 students of the University of Florence in the middle of the first two pandemic waves. We assessed the role of subjective social status, chronic diseases, sense of coherence (SoC), and digital health literacy (DHL) as predictors of psychological well-being, FA, and HCs. Students expressed high levels of FA and reported being disturbed by not being able to achieve their desired future goals. About 40% reported a low or a very low well-being and 19.1% experienced two or more subjective health complaints more than once a week. The likelihood of having a better mental health status significantly increased with increasing SoC and among males. Subjective Social Status proved to be a predictor for FA. Enhancing SoC could improve the health status of the university students during the pandemic and beyond. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-eb63c86f73334964b7c9f1c0de0595172023-09-21T08:38:18ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652023-09-011110.3389/fpubh.2023.12103271210327Predictors of well-being, future anxiety, and multiple recurrent health complaints among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of socioeconomic determinants, sense of coherence, and digital health literacy. An Italian cross-sectional studyChiara Lorini0Chiara Lorini1Giuseppe Cavallo2Giuseppe Cavallo3Virginia Vettori4Virginia Vettori5Primo Buscemi6Giulia Ciardi7Patrizio Zanobini8Patrizio Zanobini9Orkan Okan10Kevin Dadaczynski11Kevin Dadaczynski12Vieri Lastrucci13Vieri Lastrucci14Guglielmo Bonaccorsi15Guglielmo Bonaccorsi16Department of Health Science, University of Florence, Florence, ItalyHealth Literacy Laboratory, Department of Health Science, University of Florence, Florence, ItalyDepartment of Health Science, University of Florence, Florence, ItalyHealth Literacy Laboratory, Department of Health Science, University of Florence, Florence, ItalyDepartment of Health Science, University of Florence, Florence, ItalyHealth Literacy Laboratory, Department of Health Science, University of Florence, Florence, ItalySchool of Specialization in Public Health, University of Florence, Florence, ItalySchool of Specialization in Public Health, University of Florence, Florence, ItalyDepartment of Health Science, University of Florence, Florence, ItalyHealth Literacy Laboratory, Department of Health Science, University of Florence, Florence, ItalyDepartment of Sport and Health Sciences, Technical University Munich, Uptown München-Campus D, Munich, GermanyDepartment of Health Science, Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, GermanyCenter for Applied Health Sciences, Leuphana Universitat Lüneburg, Lüneburg, GermanyDepartment of Health Science, University of Florence, Florence, ItalyEpidemiology Unit, Meyer Children’s University Hospital, Florence, ItalyDepartment of Health Science, University of Florence, Florence, ItalyHealth Literacy Laboratory, Department of Health Science, University of Florence, Florence, ItalyThe pandemic deeply changed young adults’ life. Lockdown period and the social restrictions dramatically affected university students’ mental health. The aim of our cross-sectional study was to describe psychological well-being, future anxiety (FA), and health complaints (HCs) in a sample of 3,001 students of the University of Florence in the middle of the first two pandemic waves. We assessed the role of subjective social status, chronic diseases, sense of coherence (SoC), and digital health literacy (DHL) as predictors of psychological well-being, FA, and HCs. Students expressed high levels of FA and reported being disturbed by not being able to achieve their desired future goals. About 40% reported a low or a very low well-being and 19.1% experienced two or more subjective health complaints more than once a week. The likelihood of having a better mental health status significantly increased with increasing SoC and among males. Subjective Social Status proved to be a predictor for FA. Enhancing SoC could improve the health status of the university students during the pandemic and beyond.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1210327/fullpsychological determinantswell-beingsocioeconomic determinantsuniversity studentsSOCcross-sectional study |
| spellingShingle | Chiara Lorini Chiara Lorini Giuseppe Cavallo Giuseppe Cavallo Virginia Vettori Virginia Vettori Primo Buscemi Giulia Ciardi Patrizio Zanobini Patrizio Zanobini Orkan Okan Kevin Dadaczynski Kevin Dadaczynski Vieri Lastrucci Vieri Lastrucci Guglielmo Bonaccorsi Guglielmo Bonaccorsi Predictors of well-being, future anxiety, and multiple recurrent health complaints among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of socioeconomic determinants, sense of coherence, and digital health literacy. An Italian cross-sectional study Frontiers in Public Health psychological determinants well-being socioeconomic determinants university students SOC cross-sectional study |
| title | Predictors of well-being, future anxiety, and multiple recurrent health complaints among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of socioeconomic determinants, sense of coherence, and digital health literacy. An Italian cross-sectional study |
| title_full | Predictors of well-being, future anxiety, and multiple recurrent health complaints among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of socioeconomic determinants, sense of coherence, and digital health literacy. An Italian cross-sectional study |
| title_fullStr | Predictors of well-being, future anxiety, and multiple recurrent health complaints among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of socioeconomic determinants, sense of coherence, and digital health literacy. An Italian cross-sectional study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Predictors of well-being, future anxiety, and multiple recurrent health complaints among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of socioeconomic determinants, sense of coherence, and digital health literacy. An Italian cross-sectional study |
| title_short | Predictors of well-being, future anxiety, and multiple recurrent health complaints among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of socioeconomic determinants, sense of coherence, and digital health literacy. An Italian cross-sectional study |
| title_sort | predictors of well being future anxiety and multiple recurrent health complaints among university students during the covid 19 pandemic the role of socioeconomic determinants sense of coherence and digital health literacy an italian cross sectional study |
| topic | psychological determinants well-being socioeconomic determinants university students SOC cross-sectional study |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1210327/full |
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