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ArticleBMC psychology2026

Prevalence and risk factors of depression in college students in Northeast China during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study.

Yanze Cui, Liying Yang, Wanqiu Yang, Xiaohong Wang, Jiazhou Liu, Yanqing Wang, Jiacheng Liu, Dan Leng, Borui Yang, Na Zhao and 1 more

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Yanze CuiDepartment of Scientific Research Management Office, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China.
Liying YangDepartment of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China.
Wanqiu YangSchool of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China.
Xiaohong WangDepartment of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China.
Jiazhou LiuSchool of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China.
Yanqing WangSchool of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China.
Jiacheng LiuDepartment of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China.
Dan LengSchool of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China.
Borui YangSchool of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China.
Na ZhaoDepartment of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China. zhaona@hrbmu.edu.cn.
Chuanyi KangDepartment of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China. kangchuanyi@hrbmu.edu.cn.

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First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University 2024B01Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province LH2022H040the basic scientific research business expenses of Heilongjiang Provincial Key Research and Development Program Project 2023ZX06C05The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars 2024JQ05
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backgroundThe Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic spread rapidly worldwide, posing a serious health challenge to the global public. College students, lacking sufficient psychological resilience and coping skills, are more prone to depressive. Social isolation and online learning have led to increased health risk behaviors and decreased life satisfaction among college students. However, few studies exist on the association between health risk behaviors and depression among Chinese college students during the stage. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the prevalence of depression and its risk factors among college students during the pandemic.

methodsA total of 2150 first and second-year college students (whose age from 16 to 20) were recruited for this study from April to June 2020. Data were collected through the Adolescent Students' Life Satisfaction Scale, Health Risk Behavior Scale, Self-rating Anxiety Scale, and Self-rating Depression Scale. A self-administered questionnaire collected other demographic data.Binary logistic regression was conducted to analyze the risk factors of depression.

resultsThe prevalence of depressive state of college students was 32.1%. Students with health-compromising behavior (OR = 1.128, p < 0.001) were positively correlated with depression. Furthermore, satisfaction with friendships (OR = 0.941, p < 0.001), freedom (OR = 0.955, p = 0.004), school (OR = 0.966, p = 0.010), and the environment (OR = 0.933, p < 0.001) were protective factors for students' depression.

conclusionsTo reduce this depression, schools should increase publicity and education to promote a regular diet among college students, channel adolescents' destructive emotions to prevent them from self-injury and self-harm, enrich their after-school life to strengthen their interpersonal communication, and enhance friendship- building among them.

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COVID-19DepressionStudentsAdolescentChinaCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMalePandemicsPersonal SatisfactionPrevalenceRisk FactorsSARS-CoV-2UniversitiesYoung AdultCollege studentsDepressionLife satisfactionRisky behavior

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