Mental health of university students twenty months after the beginning of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war DOI Creative Commons
Marina Polyvіanaia, Yuliia Yachnik, Jörg M. Fegert

и другие.

BMC Psychiatry, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 25(1)

Опубликована: Март 12, 2025

Russia's full-scale military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 led to an increase anxiety and depressive states, psychosomatic manifestations, a tendency abuse alcohol psychoactive substances in the population. The aim this paper is examine mental health burden among university students twenty months after war identify risk protective factors for problems. A cross-sectional study was conducted Ukrainian October 2023 (n = 1398). online survey included sociodemographic data collection, evaluation psychological well-being measured depression, anxiety, PTSD symptoms insomnia. Normality variables verified by Kolmogorov–Smirnov test. An independent-samples t-test, Mann–Whitney U-test, χ2 test analysis variance were used compare data. Differences PHQ-9 GAD-7 levels based characteristics analyzed using ANOVA. Correlation between calculated with Pearson correlation, adjusted Benjamini-Hochberg procedure. To develop predictive model XGBoost algorithm employed, additionally, SHAP utilized. Symptoms PTSD, as well moderate severe insomnia, reported 48.1%, 34.1%, 33.6%, 19.3% students, respectively. severity these varied such sex, age, prior trauma experiences, living conditions. Additionally, type relocation (within or abroad) significantly influenced outcomes. majority participants (68.5%) experience war-related traumatic events. Factors linked higher depression symptom scores lower initial well-being, greater social media use, female gender, exposure multiple events, experiences assault sexual violence, loss loved one, pre-existing ongoing treatment during war, use psychotropic medications. face significant due high rates insomnia symptoms. These findings highlight importance tailored interventions through different stakeholders that take into account individual needs, past burdens usage.

Язык: Английский

Mental health of university students twenty months after the beginning of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war DOI Creative Commons
Marina Polyvіanaia, Yuliia Yachnik, Jörg M. Fegert

и другие.

BMC Psychiatry, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 25(1)

Опубликована: Март 12, 2025

Russia's full-scale military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 led to an increase anxiety and depressive states, psychosomatic manifestations, a tendency abuse alcohol psychoactive substances in the population. The aim this paper is examine mental health burden among university students twenty months after war identify risk protective factors for problems. A cross-sectional study was conducted Ukrainian October 2023 (n = 1398). online survey included sociodemographic data collection, evaluation psychological well-being measured depression, anxiety, PTSD symptoms insomnia. Normality variables verified by Kolmogorov–Smirnov test. An independent-samples t-test, Mann–Whitney U-test, χ2 test analysis variance were used compare data. Differences PHQ-9 GAD-7 levels based characteristics analyzed using ANOVA. Correlation between calculated with Pearson correlation, adjusted Benjamini-Hochberg procedure. To develop predictive model XGBoost algorithm employed, additionally, SHAP utilized. Symptoms PTSD, as well moderate severe insomnia, reported 48.1%, 34.1%, 33.6%, 19.3% students, respectively. severity these varied such sex, age, prior trauma experiences, living conditions. Additionally, type relocation (within or abroad) significantly influenced outcomes. majority participants (68.5%) experience war-related traumatic events. Factors linked higher depression symptom scores lower initial well-being, greater social media use, female gender, exposure multiple events, experiences assault sexual violence, loss loved one, pre-existing ongoing treatment during war, use psychotropic medications. face significant due high rates insomnia symptoms. These findings highlight importance tailored interventions through different stakeholders that take into account individual needs, past burdens usage.

Язык: Английский

Процитировано

0