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Title:Depressive symptoms among Slovenian female tertiary students before and during the COVID-19 pandemic : analysis of two repeated cross-sectional surveys in 2020 and 2021
Authors:ID Kirbiš, Andrej (Author)
Files:.pdf Kirbis-2023-Depressive_Symptoms_among_Slovenia.pdf (286,19 KB)
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URL https://doi.org/10.3390/su151813776
 
Language:English
Work type:Article
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:FF - Faculty of Arts
Abstract:The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the mental health of the general population. This holds true especially for vulnerable groups, including young people, students, and females. Our study examined cross-sectional changes in depressive symptoms from immediately before the COVID-19 pandemic (January/February 2020) to the second wave of the epidemic in Slovenia (January/February 2021) among female tertiary students. A multivariate analysis of two repeated cross-sectional surveys was performed using relatively homogeneous samples. The pooled sample included 418 young adult female students (Mage = 21.21 years). Depressed affect items were used to measure depressive symptomatology. All three feelings indicating depressed affect increased substantially and significantly from 2020 to 2021: feeling depressed (23% vs. 38%), lonely (16% vs. 43%), and sad (21% vs. 49%). In 2021, female students had almost a three-fold increase in the odds of reporting at least two out of three depressed affect symptoms compared to 2020 (19% vs. 43%; aOR 2.97; 95% CI 1.59–5.54; p < 0.001), adjusted for sociodemographic and socioeconomic confounders. Our findings suggest that Slovenian female students’ mental health deteriorated during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public health professionals’ efforts to combat the pandemic’s mental health-related negative short-term and potential long-term impacts should thus focus on young people, especially on younger female students.
Keywords:depressive symptoms, depressed affect, students, covid-19, mental health, pandemic
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Submitted for review:31.05.2023
Article acceptance date:14.09.2023
Publication date:15.09.2023
Publisher:MDPI
Year of publishing:2023
Number of pages:Str. 1-13
Numbering:Letn. 15, Št. 18, št. članka 13776
PID:20.500.12556/DKUM-88091 New window
UDC:316.346.32:159.974
ISSN on article:2071-1050
COBISS.SI-ID:165088259 New window
DOI:10.3390/su151813776 New window
Publication date in DKUM:09.04.2024
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KIRBIŠ, Andrej, 2023, Depressive symptoms among Slovenian female tertiary students before and during the COVID-19 pandemic : analysis of two repeated cross-sectional surveys in 2020 and 2021. Sustainability [online]. 2023. Vol. 15, no. Št. 18,  članka 13776, p. 1–13. [Accessed 18 March 2025]. DOI 10.3390/su151813776. Retrieved from: https://dk.um.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=88091
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Title:Sustainability
Shortened title:Sustainability
Publisher:MDPI
ISSN:2071-1050
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Document is financed by a project

Funder:ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
Project number:J5-4579-2022
Name:Popandemično obdobje v Sloveniji: oklevanje pred cepljenjem, demokratična udeležba in zaupanje v javnozdravstvene ustanove
Funder:ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
Project number:P6-0372-2022
Name:Slovenska identiteta in kulturna zavest v jezikovno in etnično stičnih prostorih v preteklosti in sedanjosti

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License:CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Licensing start date:15.09.2023

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Language:Slovenian
Keywords:simptomi depresivnosti, depresija, študenti, covid-19, duševno zdravje, pandemija


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