Research on the Mental Stress of College Students in Southwest China amid the COVID-19 Epidemic

ABSTRACT

This study designed related mental health assessment questions to investigate the mental stress of college students in China's southwest region during the epidemic. In this study, college students from 5 universities in southwest China were selected as the research objects. A total of 1890 questionnaires were distributed, and 1812 questionnaires were recovered, with the recovery rate of 95.87%, of which 1808 are valid. The valid rate of the questionnaire is 99.78%. The data on questionnaires were imported into Excel for preliminary screening and processing, and the data were analyzed using the SPSS22.0 software. The enumeration data are expressed by percentage (%), and X2 test was performed for comparison. t test was used to compare the enumeration data, with P<0.05 representing there is difference. The research results showed that college students in Southwest China generally have different degrees of mental problems, and there are many influencing factors, including the following aspects (1) It was found that compared with non-medical students, medical students have a lower degree of anxiety;(2) sleep quality. Generally speaking, mental state is closely related to the quality of sleep;(3) The degree of understanding of COVID-19. Students who have a moderate understanding of the epidemic situation are generally more anxious, suggesting that mistakes or limited cognition of COVID-19 can result in negative emotions of students;(4) This study revealed that with the reduction in the frequency of going out per week, the degree of anxiety of college students increases significantly. © 2021 Kriedt Enterprises Ltd. All right reserved.