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COVID-19 German Student Well-being Study (C19 GSWS)

Creators

  • 1. Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Health and Nursing Science, Berlin, Germany
  • 2. Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
  • 3. Department Prevention and Evaluation, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology—BIPS, Bremen, Germany
  • 4. Institute of Medical Sociology, Centre for Health and Society, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany
  • 5. Institute for Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics and Informatics, Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Medical School of the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
  • 6. Department of Social Sciences, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany

Description

COVID-19 German Student Well-being Study (C19 GSWS)

Following the COVID-19 International Student Well-being Study (C19 ISWS; survey phase: May 13th, 2020 to May 29th, 2020 in 27 European countries coordinated by the University of Antwerp), well-being of university students during the COVID-19 pandemic continued to be  the focus of the collaborative COVID-19 German Student Well-being Study (C19 GSWS) which was conducted at five universities in Germany.

 

The five German universities taking part in the study were the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (PI: Prof. Christiane Stock), the University of Bremen (PI: Dr. Heide Busse), Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf (PI: Prof. Claudia Pischke), University of Siegen (PI: Prof. Claus Wendt) and Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (PI: Prof. Rafael Mikolajczyk).

 

The following research questions were addressed:

 

- How did university students' (physical and socioeconomic) living conditions and academic workload change during the COVID-19 pandemic?

- How were living and study conditions associated with mental health outcomes among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic?

- How were living conditions and academic workload associated with health behaviours (e.g., substance use) among university students during the pandemic?

- Which attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination and determinants of vaccination behavior were prevalent r among university students?

 

To answer the research questions, an online survey among university students was conducted at all participating universities from October 27th, 2021 to November 14th, 2021. The resulting data allow for a description of living conditions, as well as well-being, during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in German university student populations.

 

Information about C19 ISWS on Zenodo:

https://zenodo.org/communities/c19-isws/?page=1&size=20

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