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The Impact of COVID-19 Confinement on Substance Use and Mental Health in Portuguese Higher Education Students

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dc.contributor.authorOliveira, Ana Paula
dc.contributor.authorLuis H, Soares
dc.contributor.authorSoares Luis, Luis
dc.contributor.authorNobre, Joana Rita
dc.contributor.authorPinho, Lara Guedes
dc.contributor.authorAlbacar-Riobóo, Núria
dc.contributor.authorSequeira, Carlos
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-09T14:10:42Z
dc.date.available2024-01-09T14:10:42Z
dc.date.issued2023-02-19
dc.descriptionFunding: This research received no external funding.pt_PT
dc.description.abstractThe mental health of higher education students is a constant concern, and the pandemic situation caused by COVID-19 has intensified this concern. The social measures imposed to control and minimize the disease have led, among other things, to the reconfiguration of higher education students’ academic life habits, which has naturally altered their emotional balance, mental health, and substance abuse. This cross-sectional, descriptive, and correlational study assesses the influence of higher education students’ personal characteristics on their (self-reported) use of addictive substances (alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and pharmaceutical drugs) before and during their first compulsory confinement in Portugal, as well as its relationship with mental health. An online questionnaire was applied between 15 April and 20 May 2020, to students from various study cycles of higher education institutions in one region of Portugal (northern area of Alentejo), which included the Mental Health Inventory in its reduced version (MHI-5) and questions (constructed by the authors) on personal characterization and on the use of addictive substances before and during confinement. The convenience sample included 329 mostly female health care students between the ages of 18 and 24. In our results, we found a statistically significant decrease in tobacco, alcohol, and drug use; however, there was an increase in tobacco use among older students and an increase in anxiolytic use among students with higher academic achievement and among students who exhibited more active social behavior in the period prior to confinement. Students who took anxiolytics during confinement had higher MHI-5 scores and students who used the most addictive substances during confinement had lower MHI-5 scores than the other students.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationOliveira, A.P.; Luis, H.; Luís, L.S.; Nobre, J.R.; Pinho, L.G.; Albacar-Riobóo, N.; Sequeira, C. The Impact of COVID-19 Confinement on Substance Use and Mental Health in Portuguese Higher Education Students. Healthcare 2023, 11, 619. https://doi.org/10.3390/ healthcare11040619pt_PT
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11040619pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn2227-9032
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/9211
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherMDPIpt_PT
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dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/11/4/619pt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectMental healthpt_PT
dc.subjectConfinementpt_PT
dc.subjectAddictive substancespt_PT
dc.subjectHigher education studentspt_PT
dc.titleThe Impact of COVID-19 Confinement on Substance Use and Mental Health in Portuguese Higher Education Studentspt_PT
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oaire.citation.titleHealthcarept_PT
oaire.citation.volume11pt_PT
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