Aqeel Muhammad, Rehna Tasnim, Shuja Kanwar Hamza, Abbas Jaffar
Foundation University Islamabad, Rawalpindi Campus, Islamabad, Pakistan.
National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Front Psychiatry. 2022 Apr 20;13:835585. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.835585. eCollection 2022.
Scholars have debated the COVID-19's full and partial lockdowns' effectivity to control the transmission of the new case. They emphasized the provision of required economic and social resources worldwide. Past literature related to COVID-19 has contributed little evidence to examine the efficacy of full and partial lockdown measures with experimental perspectives at different intervals. This study bridges this literature gap and explores the full and smart lockdowns' impacts on Pakistani students' mental health, depression, quality of life, and anxiety symptoms, during the various waves of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This pretest and posttest experimental designed web-based survey recruited 40 students from March 23 to August 23, 2020, and recorded their responses. The study incorporated four standardized psychological instruments to receive the desired datasets related to students' mental health, quality of life, anxiety, and depression. Researchers shared data links with the participants via social media, WhatsApp. The study applied one-way and multivariate ANOVA tests (analysis of variance) to draw the desired results.
This study's findings suggest that both full and partial COVID-19 lockdowns effectively improve students' mental health and quality of life. These measures help reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms among university students. The study results exhibit that partial lockdown (PL) is more effective in improving quality of life. Besides, PL helps reduce anxiety symptoms than complete lockdown among Pakistani students.
The present study's findings suggest that students are vulnerable. They need particular interventions and preventive measures to protect and improve their mental health and quality of life during a global pandemic. As the stressful experience of the epidemic persists in Pakistan. It will also be interesting to examine the psychological impact of the successive waves of the COVID-19 pandemic.
学者们一直在争论新冠疫情全面和部分封锁措施在控制新增病例传播方面的有效性。他们强调了在全球范围内提供所需的经济和社会资源。过去与新冠疫情相关的文献几乎没有提供证据，从不同时间间隔的实验角度来检验全面和部分封锁措施的效果。本研究填补了这一文献空白，探讨了在新冠疫情不同阶段，全面封锁和精准封锁对巴基斯坦学生心理健康、抑郁、生活质量和焦虑症状的影响。
这项采用前测和后测设计的基于网络的调查于2020年3月23日至8月23日招募了40名学生，并记录他们的回答。该研究采用了四种标准化心理测量工具，以获取与学生心理健康、生活质量、焦虑和抑郁相关的所需数据集。研究人员通过社交媒体WhatsApp与参与者分享数据链接。该研究应用单因素和多因素方差分析来得出所需结果。
本研究结果表明，新冠疫情的全面和部分封锁都能有效改善学生的心理健康和生活质量。这些措施有助于减少大学生的焦虑和抑郁症状。研究结果显示，部分封锁在改善生活质量方面更有效。此外，在巴基斯坦学生中，部分封锁比全面封锁更有助于减轻焦虑症状。
本研究结果表明，学生很脆弱。在全球大流行期间，他们需要特殊的干预措施和预防措施来保护和改善他们的心理健康和生活质量。由于疫情带来的压力体验在巴基斯坦持续存在，研究新冠疫情后续阶段的心理影响也将很有趣。
