ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Flourishing or Languishing? Predictors of Positive Mental Health in Medical Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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- Measuring medical student wellbeing longitudinally: a psychometric systematic review of commonly used scales.Canadian medical education journal · 2026Pooled it
- Instruments used to measure well-being, ill-being, and health-related lifestyle behaviors in students attending Italian universities: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Psychological wellbeing of Italian students and clinical assessment tools at university counseling services during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Changes in positive mental health before and after the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated sociodemographic characteristics and COVID-19-related stressors.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026Article
- Satisfaction with telepsychiatry and mental health stigma among health sciences students in Egyptian universities.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Is early-morning class exposure associated with lower positive mental health among university students? Conditional associations and heterogeneous profiles.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Global Crisis: Aspects of University Students' Well-Being During the Quarantine in Greece.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Impact of Gender, Training Year, Medical Specialty and the COVID-19 Pandemic on Resident Wellness.The clinical teacher · 2025Article
- Medical students' distress during the transition to the endemic phase of COVID-19 in China: The association with temperament traits and attachment styles.AIMS public health · 2025Article
- An Analysis of Mental Health, Subjective Well-Being, and Self-Efficacy Among Nurses in the Qassim Health Cluster: Identification of Risk Levels.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2025Article
- The impact of higher levels of autistic traits on risk of hikikomori (pathological social withdrawal) in young adults.PloS one · 2023Article
- Depression, anxiety, stress, and fear of COVID-19 among Bangladeshi medical students during the first wave of the pandemic: a mixed-methods study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, medical students were burdened with high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression. The objective of the present study was to investigate predictors of positive mental health among medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted an online survey from September 2021 to March 2022. We applied the snowball recruitment technique involving medical students from the University of Catania, Italy. We administered, anonymously, a questionnaire about demographic characteristics, the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21), the Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Pisa, Paris and San Diego Autoquestionnaire (TEMPS-A), and the short form of the Mental Health Continuum (MHC-SF). Participants showed moderate anxiety, depression, and stress levels, and more than half had positive mental health status overall. This finding was inversely related to age, depression severity, cyclothymic, and depressive temperaments. Our results showed that medical students with depressive and cyclothymic temperaments were more at risk of worsening mental health status during the pandemic. Our findings may allow for further developments about the impact of personological characteristics on students' mental health to enable more efficient support for the most vulnerable.
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