SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Prevalence of Anxiety in University Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review.
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- A systematic literature review and meta-analysis of virtual reality nature effects on higher education students' mental health and wellbeing.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2025Pooled it
- Relationship between depression and quality of life among students: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2023Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies exploring prevalence of non-specific anxiety in undergraduate university students.BMC psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- COVID-19 and common mental health symptoms in the early phase of the pandemic: An umbrella review of the evidence.PLoS medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Prevalence and factors associated with depression, anxiety and stress in Malaysia during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
- Prevalence of anxiety, depressive and insomnia symptoms among the different groups of people during COVID-19 pandemic: An overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Harnessing large language models in virtual CBT for university students' academic anxiety: a preliminary randomized trial.Frontiers in public health · 2026Trial
- Non-compliance with COVID-19 Health Recommendations: Five- and Ten-Month Effects on Mental Health and Academic Self-efficacy Among University Students in Sweden.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- Prevalence and associated risk factors of psychotic experiences in the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Annals of general psychiatry · 2026Article
- Digital EduHealth for the wellbeing of minority university students: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Mediating effect of fear of happiness between intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety among Lebanese adults.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Tracking changes in anxiety, depression, and stress among Ukrainian university students: a three-wave study from the COVID-19 pandemic to two years of ongoing full-scale war.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Psychological Problems and Academic Motivation in University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study One Year after the COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2025Article
- Rumination and alexithymia serially mediate the relationship between mindfulness and anxiety symptoms in Chinese university students.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Mapping anxiety symptoms and disordered eating using the EPSI: a latent profile analysis accounting for peak alcohol use.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- University student wellbeing during COVID-19: associations with infection prevalence and social gathering restrictions in an observational study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Measuring Debilitating and Facilitating Anxiety Within Nursing Simulation.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Article
- The Road to Recovery: A Two-Year Longitudinal Analysis of Mental Health Among University Students During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- How Emotional Intelligence Influences Students' Life Satisfaction During University Lockdown: The Chain Mediating Effect of Interpersonal Competence and Anxiety.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Test anxiety and coping strategies among university students an exploratory study in the UAE.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
There is a dearth of evidence synthesis on the prevalence of anxiety among university students even though the risk of psychological disorders among this population is quite high. We conducted a quantitative systematic review to estimate the global prevalence of anxiety among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. A systematic search for cross-sectional studies on PubMed, Scopus, and PsycINFO, using PRISMA guidelines, was conducted from September 2020 to February 2021. A total of 36 studies were included, using a random-effects model to calculate the pooled proportion of anxiety. A meta-analysis of the prevalence estimate of anxiety yielded a summary prevalence of 41% (95% CI = 0.34-0.49), with statistically significant evidence of between-study heterogeneity (Q = 80801.97, I
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