Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
J Am Coll Health. 2024 Jul;72(5):1466-1472. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2022.2080507. Epub 2022 Jun 3.
The long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on college students' mental health remains unknown. The current study explored self-reported Obsessive-Compulsive symptomatology among college student cohorts from pre-, peak-, and later-pandemic time points.
Undergraduate college students (N = 524) who volunteered for course credit.
Self-report responses on the Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (DOCS), which includes subscales for contamination, unacceptable thoughts, harm responsibility, and symmetry, were collected from November 29, 2016 through April 27, 2021 and assessed for differences between the pre-, peak-, and later-pandemic cohorts.
Peak-pandemic responders reported higher symptomatology for contamination and unacceptable thoughts compared to pre-pandemic responders (and for pre- vs. later-pandemic for contamination), with no significant effects for symmetry or harm responsibility.
Although the longer-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on students remains unknown, a greater shift in college mental health services from prevention to assessing and addressing more immediate challenges may be necessary.
新冠疫情对大学生心理健康的长期影响尚不清楚。本研究探讨了新冠疫情前、高峰期和后期三个时间点大学生群体的自我报告强迫症状。
自愿参加课程学分的本科生（n=524）。
从 2016 年 11 月 29 日至 2021 年 4 月 27 日，通过维度强迫量表（DOCS）收集自我报告的反应，包括污染、不可接受的想法、伤害责任和对称性的子量表，并评估前、高峰期和后期疫情队列之间的差异。
与疫情前的 responder 相比，高峰期疫情的 responder 报告的污染和不可接受的想法症状更高（与疫情前相比，污染更严重），对称性或伤害责任没有显著影响。
尽管新冠疫情对学生的长期影响尚不清楚，但大学心理健康服务可能需要从预防转向评估和解决更直接的挑战。
