First and Second Wave COVID-19 Fear Impact: Israeli and Russian Social Work Student Fear, Mental Health and Substance Use

• DOI: 10.1007/s11469-020-00481-z
• Publication Date: 2021-02-02T19:19:44Z
• Authors: Alexander Reznik; Valentina Gritsenko; Vsevolod Konstant...; Mor Yehudai; Shmaya Bender; Irina Shilina; Richard Isralowitz
• Keywords: Health psychology; 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused universities worldwide to limit operation, shift traditional classroom learning internet instruction, and restrict contact through recommended social distancing (WHO 2020a).Such actions have been taken in spite of a possible mental health tsunami (Carson et al. 2020) resulting from factors isolation (Holmes 2020), substance misuse (Gritsenko 2020;Zolotov other maladaptive coping mechanisms (Bender 2020;Cheng 2020).The experience living the heightened interest personality that may serve as bulwark against fear, stress negative impacts.Psychological resilience, understood ability psychologically or emotionally cope with crisis quickly return pre-crisis state, is increasingly seen protective factor (Barzilay 2020; Walsh Yıldırım Solmaz 2020).Among university students, harmful effects on psychological emotional well-being observed (McKay Asmundson 2020).However, few studies examined evolution such resilience among students service responsibilities high risk clientele (Isralowitz 2020).This study aims examine related fear its association psychoemotional conditions including use Israeli Russian work at two peak points waves infection.The first was conducted May second, examination student October/November, 2020.It hypothesized