The impact of the closure in the conditions of the COVID-19 virus on the mental health of higher education students in Egypt

Abstract

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic of 2019 has left pupils with a huge psychological burden. The goal of this study was to see if COVID-19 affected university students' mental health and how common anxiety and depression were. The online questionnaire was issued to students at Minia University's College of Education, Arts, Al-Alsun, Science, Medical, and Engineering for the cross-sectional descriptive study. The generalized anxiety and disorder scale, as well as the patient health questionnaire, were evaluated and expressed using statistics utilizing the statistical package for social sciences. Descriptive statistics and percentages The Pearson correlation test was used to analyze the relationship between these scores and age, while an independent t-test was utilized to determine differences between the sexes. There were 288 respondents, 58 percent males and 48 percent females, with an average age of 18-23, and there appeared to be no statistically significant differences in age and gender, with the average anxiety among students at 41 percent and the average depression at 28 percent. The prevalence of anxiety and depression owing to the pandemic is not related to age or gender, according to this study. This differs perhaps due to differences in sample size, resource preparation, study timing, and the nature of the Arab-Islamic environment.