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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a global concern. Reports of insidious asymptomatic variants of the virus raise concerns about the safety of huge numbers of students on university campuses. Objective: The study aimed to delineate psychological correlates for students' adherence to safety protocols for appropriate context-specific coping intervention designs. Setting & Design: 751 students from the various colleges of the KNUST were conveniently sampled for this crosssectional survey. Measures: Psychological instruments with good psychometric properties (DASS-21; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and Perceived Control Scales) were used in addition to demographics and questions on COVID safety protocol adherence. Results: Self-esteem positively correlated with perceived control (r = 0.40, p<0.001) and COVID adherence (r = 0.16, p<0.001); but negatively correlated with psychological distress (r = -0.44 p<0.001). Greater perceived control was associated with lower psychological distress (r = -0.20 p<0.001) and greater adherence to safety protocols (r = 0.24 p<0.001). Protocol adherence was regressed on psychological distress, self-esteem, and perceived control to determine any significant prediction. All the variables accounted for 7% of the variance in COVID protocol adherence (R2 = 0.07, F (3, 661) =17.29, p<0.001) with perceived control significantly predicting adherence to COVID safety protocol (B = 0.11, ß=0.23, t=5.54 p<0.001). Conclusion: Results indicated that perceived control over important life events and healthy self-esteem would likely facilitate adherence to COVID safety protocols and attenuate psychological distress. Implications for further research and design of appropriate COVID coping response interventions are discussed
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Humans , Cross Infection , Risk Factors , Environment Design , COVID-19 , Self ConceptABSTRACT
28 femmes obèses ou en surpoids (IMC>25), nouvellement admises à un programme de remise en forme, âgées de 39 ± 10 ans, ont pris part à une étude dont le but était d'évaluer, sur une période de 3 mois (T0, T1, T2, T3), la variation du poids, l'indice de masse corporelle (IMC), la masse grasse (%MG), la masse musculaire (MM), la densité osseuse (DO) et le pourcentage d'eau (%H2O) d'une part et, d'autre part celle de l'estime de soi (ES) et de la qualité de vie (QV). Elles ont été soumises à des séances d'activités physiques aérobies, quatre fois par semaine, d'une heure trente minutes de durée. Le poids, l'IMC, la MM, la DO et le %H2O n'ont pas varié significativement. Une analyse par classe d'âge montre des baisses significatives de l'IMC (p< 0,01) et du %MG de l'ordre de 9,7% (p<0,0001).Le test post-hoc de Tukey révèle des différences significatives (p< 0,05) sur la MM et le %H2O. L'ES et la QV ont eu des variations respectives de 19,9% et 15,2% (p<0,001). Trois mois d'expérimentation améliorent le bien être psychologique mais, n'ont pas suffi pour améliorer les paramètres corporels