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COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact of Quarantine on Medical Students Mental Wellbeing and
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Meo SA
; Abukhalaf AA
; Alomar AA
; Sattar K
; Klonoff DC
Pak J Med Sci
2020[May]; 36
(COVID19-S4
): S43-S48
PMID32582313
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic causes great
public health and socioeconomic harms. Worldwide many countries implemented
quarantine policies to minimize the spread of this highly contagious disease. The
present study aim was to investigate the impact of quarantine on the medical
students' mental wellbeing and learning behaviors. METHODS: In this descriptive
study, we used a questionnaire with a Five-Point Likert Scale to collect the
information. The questionnaire was distributed among 625 medical students through
their emails with a response rate of 530 (84.8%), majority 294 (55.47%) being
female. The survey questionnaire consisted of total 20 items; 12 items were
related to psychological wellbeing and stress-allied queries and 08 items were
about learning behaviors. RESULTS: The findings encompass two important
characteristics related to quarantine, psychological wellbeing, and learning
behaviors. A combined cohort of 234 medical students, either female or male,
(which was 44.1% of the total responders) showed a sense of being emotionally
detached from family, friends and fellow students, 125/ 530 (23.5%) medical
students felt disheartened. Both female and male medical students showed a marked
decrease in their overall work performance. Moreover, 56.2% of the total students
(61.5% of the females and 49.5% of the males) felt a decrease in the time they
spent studying. CONCLUSIONS: Both female and male medical students have
identified that quarantine has caused them to feel emotionally detached from
family, fellows, and friends and decrease their overall work performance and
study period. The findings also show that one fourth of the medical students who
participated in this study felt disheartened during the quarantine period. The
long-term quarantine due to COVID-19 pandemics may causes further worsening in
the psychological and learning behaviors of these medical students.