التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Anxiety among Adolescents and Young Adults during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multi-Country Survey |
| المؤلفون: |
Sabbagh, H. J., Abdelaziz, W., Alghamdi, W., Quritum, M., AlKhateeb, N. A., Abourdan, J., Qureshi, N., Qureshi, S., Hamoud, A. H. N., Mahmoud, N., Odeh, R., Al-Khanati, N. M., Jaber, R., Balkhoyor, A. L., Shabi, M., Folayan, M. O., Alade, O., Gomaa, N., Alnahdi, R., Mahmoud, N. A., El Wazziki, H., Alnaas, M., Samodien, B., Mahmoud, R. A., Abu Assab, N., Saad, Sherin, Alhachim, S. G., El Tantawi, M. |
| المصدر: |
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(17) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi, adolescent and young adults, anxiety, country income level, COVID-19, socio-demographic, adolescent, epidemiology, female, human, income, pandemic, questionnaire, young adult, Humans, Pandemics, Surveys and Questionnaires |
| الوصف: |
(1) Background: Adolescents-and-young-adults (AYA) are prone to anxiety. This study assessed AYA’s level of anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic; and determined if anxiety levels were associated with country-income and region, socio-demographic profile and medical history of individuals. (2) Methods: A survey collected data from participants in 25 countries. Dependent-variables included general-anxiety level, and independent-variables included medical problems, COVID-19 infection, age, sex, education, and country-income-level and region. A multilevel-multinomial-logistic regression analysis was conducted to determine the association between dependent, and independent-variables. (3) Results: Of the 6989 respondents, 2964 (42.4%) had normal-anxiety, and 2621 (37.5%), 900 (12.9%) and 504 (7.2%) had mild, moderate and severe-anxiety, respectively. Participants from the African region (AFR) had lower odds of mild, moderate and severe than normal-anxiety compared to those from the Eastern-Mediterranean-region (EMR). Also, participants from lower-middle-income-countries (LMICs) had higher odds of mild and moderate than normal-anxiety compared to those from low-income-countries (LICs). Females, older-adolescents, with medical-problems, suspected-but-not-tested-for-COVID-19, and those with friends/family-infected with COVID-19 had significantly greater odds of different anxiety-levels. (4) Conclusions: One-in-five AYA had moderate to severe-anxiety during the COVID-19-pandemic. There were differences in anxiety-levels among AYAs by region and income-level, emphasizing the need for targeted public health interventions based on nationally-identified priorities. © 2022 by the authors. |
| URL الوصول: |
https://gup.ub.gu.se/publication/322555 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
SwePub |
