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Review
. 2022 Jun 29:10:940285.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.940285. eCollection 2022.

COVID-19 in China: A Rapid Review of the Impacts on the Mental Health of Undergraduate Students

Hairong Shi  1 , Haixue Zhu  2 , Yan Ni  3
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COVID-19 in China: A Rapid Review of the Impacts on the Mental Health of Undergraduate Students

Hairong Shi et al. Front Public Health. .

Abstract

Public health crises pose challenges for governments and health systems, and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has presented major challenges to humans worldwide. In the context of COVID-19 in China, we explore the impacts of the pandemic on the mental health of undergraduate students. We examine pandemic prevention and control measures in Chinese universities through a rapid review and use our findings to explain the difficulties that undergraduate students face. Moreover, our analysis examines the impacts on five aspects of mental health: emotional aspects, personality, interpersonal relationships, learning behavior and employment options. Additionally, we provide implications in four areas based on the application of the study: strengthening psychological intervention, promoting government information disclosure, improving family communication and adjusting self-awareness.

Keywords: COVID-19; China; mental health; strategies; undergraduate.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
COVID-19 cases from March to June 2022 in China. Data source: our world in data.
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Figure 2
Distribution of undergraduates in China. Source: collected from Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and designed by the authors. The darker the color, the greater the number of undergraduates, and vice versa.
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