Impact of COVID-19 on Lifestyle, Personal Attitudes, and Mental Health Among Korean Medical Students: Network Analysis of Associated Patterns

• DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.702092
• Publication Date: 2021-08-18T07:46:49Z
• Authors: Je-Yeon Yun; Ju Whi Kim; Sun Jung Myung; Hyun Bae Yoon; Sang Hui Moon; Hyunjin Ryu; Jae-Joon Yim
• Keywords: Pandemic

The current COVID-19 pandemic have affected our daily lifestyle, pressed us with fear of infection, and thereby changed life satisfaction mental health. study investigated influencing cascade changes during the among personal attitudes, (dis)satisfaction for medical students, using network-based approaches. This cross-sectional survey used self-reports 454 students June July 2020. Depressive mood, anxiety, intention to drop out school were observed in 11.9, 18.5, 38.3% respectively. Directed acyclic graph that estimated directional propagation students' lives initiated from perception unexpected event, propagated nervous stressed feeling, trouble relaxing, feeling like a failure, followed by concentrating, loss control situation, infecting colleagues. These six features also principal mediators within intra-individual covariance networks comprised attitude, health at pandemic. Psychosocial supports targeting nervousness, relaxing spreading infection colleagues, feelings failure or situational are required better