University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Medicine, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Department of Psychology, College of Social Work, Belgrade, Serbia.
J Infect Dev Ctries. 2023 Apr 30;17(4):439-447. doi: 10.3855/jidc.16922.
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused considerable stress and anxiety in the general population, especially among students. The objective of this study was to determine the stress and anxiety levels among medical rehabilitation students induced by distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The sample for this prospective cross-sectional study included 96 students pursuing the medical rehabilitation undergraduate degree at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. All respondents took part in an online survey created on the Google Forms platform and accessed via the Facebook social network. The questionnaire included a sociodemographic section, the perceived stress scale (PSS), and the worry about online learning scale (WOLS). All data were analyzed using the IBM SPSS version 25.
The study involved 96 students with an average age of 21.97 ± 1.55 years, 72.9% of whom were female. The total stress reported by the students during the COVID-19 pandemic was higher in females than in males (21.75 [SD = 7.50] vs. 17.84 [SD = 8.58]; p < 0.05). Younger students were more susceptible to experiencing stress during the pandemic (rho = -0.217, p < 0.05). Moreover, 57.3% of students suffered from moderate stress, while the WOLS scores indicated that distance education induced a high level of discomfort in this cohort (3.8 [IQR = 1.6]).
Medical rehabilitation students showed a moderate level of stress and a high level of concern about distance education. This stress was more prevalent among younger students and females.
2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行给普通人群，尤其是学生带来了相当大的压力和焦虑。本研究的目的是确定 COVID-19 大流行期间远程医学康复学生的压力和焦虑水平。
这项前瞻性横断面研究的样本包括 96 名在塞尔维亚诺维萨德大学医学院攻读医学康复本科学位的学生。所有受访者都参加了在 Google Forms 平台上创建的在线调查，并通过 Facebook 社交网络访问。问卷包括一个社会人口统计学部分、感知压力量表（PSS）和对在线学习的担忧量表（WOLS）。所有数据均使用 IBM SPSS 版本 25 进行分析。
该研究涉及 96 名平均年龄为 21.97 ± 1.55 岁的学生，其中 72.9%为女性。在 COVID-19 大流行期间，学生报告的总压力在女性中高于男性（21.75 [SD = 7.50] vs. 17.84 [SD = 8.58]；p < 0.05）。年轻的学生在大流行期间更容易感到压力（rho = -0.217，p < 0.05）。此外，57.3%的学生遭受中度压力，而 WOLS 分数表明该队列在远程教育中感到不适的程度很高（3.8 [IQR = 1.6]）。
医学康复学生表现出中等程度的压力和对远程教育的高度关注。这种压力在年轻学生和女性中更为普遍。
