Psychological Responses and Strategies Towards the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Higher Education Students in Portugal and Switzerland: A Mixed-Methods Study
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Resumo: | This work is funded by CCISP-HES.SO Collaborative Research, through: for Portugal, FCT and Fundação para a Ciência e aTecnologia, I.P. (UIDB/05704/2020 and UIDP/05704/2020)and under the Scientific Employment Stimulus-InstitutionalCall—[CEECINST/00051/2018]; for Switzerland, HES-SO Rectorat-Impulsions. Call Swiss-Portuguese Projects (103744/RPORTUG20-08). Open access funding was provided by the University of Geneva. |
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Psychological Responses and Strategies Towards the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Higher Education Students in Portugal and Switzerland: A Mixed-Methods StudyPortugalSwitzerlandCOVID-19Psychological impactHigher educationCoping strategiesMixed methods studyStudentsThis work is funded by CCISP-HES.SO Collaborative Research, through: for Portugal, FCT and Fundação para a Ciência e aTecnologia, I.P. (UIDB/05704/2020 and UIDP/05704/2020)and under the Scientific Employment Stimulus-InstitutionalCall—[CEECINST/00051/2018]; for Switzerland, HES-SO Rectorat-Impulsions. Call Swiss-Portuguese Projects (103744/RPORTUG20-08). Open access funding was provided by the University of Geneva.The COVID-19 pandemic has caused overwhelming changes in individual and community daily-life, resulting from the public health measures implemented to contain it, and also from its psychological and socio-economic consequences. These shifts and consequences impacted the entire population, but some groups are more likely to be affected by these changes, including higher education students. Objectives: a) to investigate mental health status and its determinants among higher-education students in Portugal and Switzerland; and b) to explore adjustment patterns used by these students to overcome the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A cross-sectional study with a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design was conducted in two phases. First, an online survey was conducted among higher education students in Portugal and Switzerland, in Portuguese and French respectively. A convenience sampling method was used. Second, some participants from the first phase were invited to participate in four online focus group discussions (two in each country) using a maximum variation sampling method. Results: The survey was answered by 1,880 students. Portuguese students revealed higher levels of stress and anxiety, but lower depression symptoms and less resilient coping compared to Swiss respondents. Hope was identified as an explanatory variable for mental health symptoms in students from both countries. In the focus groups (n = 27), 13 adjustment strategies were found, which were subdivided into three spheres: personal, social, and contextual. Conclusions: The results suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic had a mild to moderate impact on most of the evaluated mental health variables. Nevertheless, the students reacted and mobilized positive short-term strategies, which need to be reinforced in order to prevent long-term psychological harm. In addition, our results can inform psychosocial interventions to minimize psychological impact, anxiety, depression, and stress due to sanitary crises or other population-wide problems or disasters.Frontiers MediaIC-OnlineFrançoise Schwander, MarieQuerido, AnaCara-Nova, TanyaDixe, Maria dos AnjosAïssaoui, DjamelCharepe, ZaidaChristie, DerekLARANJEIRA, C.2023-05-30T17:32:27Z2022-05-112022-05-11T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/8539engSchwander-Maire F, Querido A, Cara-Nova T, Dixe MA, Aissaoui D, Charepe Z, Christie D and Laranjeira C (2022) Psychological Responses and Strategies Towards the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Higher Education Students in Portugal and Switzerland: A Mixed-Methods Study. Front. Psychiatry 13:903946. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.903946https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.9039461664-0640info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-01-17T15:57:31Zoai:iconline.ipleiria.pt:10400.8/8539Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T01:51:13.532949Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Psychological Responses and Strategies Towards the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Higher Education Students in Portugal and Switzerland: A Mixed-Methods Study |
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Psychological Responses and Strategies Towards the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Higher Education Students in Portugal and Switzerland: A Mixed-Methods Study |
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Psychological Responses and Strategies Towards the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Higher Education Students in Portugal and Switzerland: A Mixed-Methods Study Françoise Schwander, Marie Portugal Switzerland COVID-19 Psychological impact Higher education Coping strategies Mixed methods study Students |
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Psychological Responses and Strategies Towards the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Higher Education Students in Portugal and Switzerland: A Mixed-Methods Study |
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Psychological Responses and Strategies Towards the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Higher Education Students in Portugal and Switzerland: A Mixed-Methods Study |
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Psychological Responses and Strategies Towards the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Higher Education Students in Portugal and Switzerland: A Mixed-Methods Study |
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Psychological Responses and Strategies Towards the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Higher Education Students in Portugal and Switzerland: A Mixed-Methods Study |
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Psychological Responses and Strategies Towards the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Higher Education Students in Portugal and Switzerland: A Mixed-Methods Study |
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Françoise Schwander, Marie |
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Françoise Schwander, Marie Querido, Ana Cara-Nova, Tanya Dixe, Maria dos Anjos Aïssaoui, Djamel Charepe, Zaida Christie, Derek LARANJEIRA, C. |
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Querido, Ana Cara-Nova, Tanya Dixe, Maria dos Anjos Aïssaoui, Djamel Charepe, Zaida Christie, Derek LARANJEIRA, C. |
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IC-Online |
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Françoise Schwander, Marie Querido, Ana Cara-Nova, Tanya Dixe, Maria dos Anjos Aïssaoui, Djamel Charepe, Zaida Christie, Derek LARANJEIRA, C. |
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Portugal Switzerland COVID-19 Psychological impact Higher education Coping strategies Mixed methods study Students |
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Portugal Switzerland COVID-19 Psychological impact Higher education Coping strategies Mixed methods study Students |
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This work is funded by CCISP-HES.SO Collaborative Research, through: for Portugal, FCT and Fundação para a Ciência e aTecnologia, I.P. (UIDB/05704/2020 and UIDP/05704/2020)and under the Scientific Employment Stimulus-InstitutionalCall—[CEECINST/00051/2018]; for Switzerland, HES-SO Rectorat-Impulsions. Call Swiss-Portuguese Projects (103744/RPORTUG20-08). Open access funding was provided by the University of Geneva. |
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Schwander-Maire F, Querido A, Cara-Nova T, Dixe MA, Aissaoui D, Charepe Z, Christie D and Laranjeira C (2022) Psychological Responses and Strategies Towards the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Higher Education Students in Portugal and Switzerland: A Mixed-Methods Study. Front. Psychiatry 13:903946. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.903946 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.903946 1664-0640 |
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