College of Medicine, University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines.
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, College of Medicine, University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines.
PLoS One. 2022 May 3;17(5):e0267555. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0267555. eCollection 2022.
The COVID-19 pandemic declared by the WHO has affected many countries rendering everyday lives halted. In the Philippines, the lockdown quarantine protocols have shifted the traditional college classes to online. The abrupt transition to online classes may bring psychological effects to college students due to continuous isolation and lack of interaction with fellow students and teachers. Our study aims to assess Filipino college students' mental health status and to estimate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, the shift to online learning, and social media use on mental health. In addition, facilitators or stressors that modified the mental health status of the college students during the COVID-19 pandemic, quarantine, and subsequent shift to online learning will be investigated.
Mixed-method study design will be used, which will involve: (1) an online survey to 2,100 college students across the Philippines; and (2) randomly selected 20-40 key informant interviews (KIIs). Online self-administered questionnaire (SAQ) including Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21) and Brief-COPE will be used. Moreover, socio-demographic factors, social media usage, shift to online learning factors, family history of mental health and COVID-19, and other factors that could affect mental health will also be included in the SAQ. KIIs will explore factors affecting the student's mental health, behaviors, coping mechanism, current stressors, and other emotional reactions to these stressors. Associations between mental health outcomes and possible risk factors will be estimated using generalized linear models, while a thematic approach will be made for the findings from the KIIs. Results of the study will then be triangulated and summarized.
Our study has been approved by the University of the Philippines Manila Research Ethics Board (UPMREB 2021-099-01). The results will be actively disseminated through conference presentations, peer-reviewed journals, social media, print and broadcast media, and various stakeholder activities.
世界卫生组织宣布的 COVID-19 大流行影响了许多国家，使日常生活陷入停顿。在菲律宾，封锁隔离协议将传统的大学课程转移到了线上。由于持续隔离以及缺乏与同学和老师的互动，向在线课程的突然转变可能会对大学生产生心理影响。我们的研究旨在评估菲律宾大学生的心理健康状况，并估计 COVID-19 大流行、向在线学习的转变以及社交媒体使用对心理健康的影响。此外，还将调查在 COVID-19 大流行、隔离以及随后向在线学习转变期间改变大学生心理健康状况的促进因素或压力源。
将采用混合方法研究设计，包括：（1）对菲律宾各地的 2100 名大学生进行在线调查；（2）随机选择 20-40 名关键知情者进行访谈（KII）。将使用在线自我管理问卷（SAQ），包括抑郁、焦虑和压力量表（DASS-21）和简要应对量表（Brief-COPE）。此外，还将包括社会人口因素、社交媒体使用、向在线学习的转变因素、心理健康和 COVID-19 的家族史以及可能影响心理健康的其他因素。KII 将探讨影响学生心理健康的因素、行为、应对机制、当前压力源以及对这些压力源的其他情绪反应。使用广义线性模型估计心理健康结果与可能的风险因素之间的关联，同时对 KII 的结果采用主题方法。然后将对研究结果进行三角剖分和总结。
我们的研究已获得菲律宾马尼拉大学研究伦理委员会（UPMREB 2021-099-01）的批准。研究结果将通过会议演讲、同行评议期刊、社交媒体、印刷和广播媒体以及各种利益相关者活动积极传播。
