Depression, COVID-19 anxiety, subjective well-being, and academic performance in university students with COVID-19-infected relatives: a network analysis

• Autores: Ventura León, José, Caycho Rodríguez, Tomás, Talledo Sánchez, Karim, Casiano Valdivieso, Kenia
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2022
• Institución: Universidad Privada del Norte
• Repositorio: UPN-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.upn.edu.pe:11537/29889
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/11537/29889; https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.837606
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Depresión; Ansiedad; Covid-19; Estudiantes universitarios; Rendimiento académico; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.01.02

This study aimed to examine the relationship between anxiety, depression, subjective well-being, and academic performance in Peruvian university health science students with COVID-19-infected relatives. Eight hundred two university students aged 17–54 years (Mean 21.83; SD = 5.31); 658 females (82%) and 144 males (18%); who completed the Patient Health Questionnaire-2, Coronavirus Anxiety Scale, Subjective Well-being Scale (SWB), and Self-reporting of Academic Performance participated. A partial unregularized network was estimated using the ggmModSelect function. Expected influence (EI) values were calculated to identify the central nodes and a two-tailed permutation test for the difference between the two groups (COVID-19 infected and uninfected). The results reveal that a depression and well-being node (PHQ1-SWB3) presents the highest relationship. The most central nodes belonged to COVID-19 anxiety, and there are no global differences between the comparison networks; but at the local level, there are connections in the network of COVID-19-infected students that are not in the group that did not present this diagnosis. It is concluded that anxious–depressive symptomatology and its relationship with well-being and evaluation of academic performance should be considered in order to understand the impact that COVID-19 had on health sciences students.