{"id":1135,"date":"2021-12-06T21:02:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T13:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/transactions.nast.ph\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2023-03-22T15:47:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T07:47:05","slug":"unattended-mental-health-needs-adult-students-in-the-philippines-during-the-early-weeks-of-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transactions.nast.ph\/?p=1135","title":{"rendered":"Unattended Mental Health Needs: Adult Students in the Philippines during the Early Weeks of the COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Norman B. Mendoza<sup>1<\/sup>, Allan B. I. Bernardo<sup>2*<\/sup>,&nbsp;and John Ian Wilzon T. Dizon<sup>3<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><sup>1<\/sup>The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong <br><sup>2<\/sup>De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines <br><sup>3<\/sup>Angeles University Foundation, Angeles City, Philippines<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.57043\/transnastphl.2021.1135\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.57043\/transnastphl.2021.1135<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"abstract\"><strong>ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>A survey of 3,032 university students in the Philippines during the beginning of the&nbsp; COVID-19 lockdown in the country (March to April 2020) revealed that 44.66% met the cutoff&nbsp; score for generalized anxiety symptoms (GAD-2) and 62.40% reported having very bad to bad&nbsp; sleep quality; these symptoms are also negatively correlated with measures of psychological&nbsp; well-being. We also found that, among those screened by the GAD-2, 40% (<em>n <\/em>= 542) and 51.55%&nbsp; (<em>n <\/em>= 698) met the cutoff score for moderate and severe anxiety on the GAD-7, respectively. The&nbsp; sector of the Philippine population lost their usual access to mental health services in their&nbsp; school campuses, and the paper describes how their mental health needs during the pandemic&nbsp; remain unattended, as university campuses remain closed even eighteen months after.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"keywords\"><em>Keywords:<\/em><\/h6>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-post_tag wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/transactions.nast.ph\/?tag=anxiety\" rel=\"tag\">anxiety<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/transactions.nast.ph\/?tag=covid-19\" rel=\"tag\">COVID-19<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/transactions.nast.ph\/?tag=philippines\" rel=\"tag\">Philippines<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/transactions.nast.ph\/?tag=sleep-quality\" rel=\"tag\">sleep quality<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/transactions.nast.ph\/?tag=university-students\" rel=\"tag\">university students<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>*Correspondence: Allan B. I. Bernardo, allanbibernardo@dlsu.edu.ph<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\"  class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/transactions.nast.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021-Perspectives-Mendoza-NB.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:1090px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Embed of 2021-Perspectives-Mendoza-NB..\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-e7da03f9-7694-4886-88eb-c65c8c5b3020\" href=\"https:\/\/transactions.nast.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021-Perspectives-Mendoza-NB.pdf\">2021-Perspectives-Mendoza-NB<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/transactions.nast.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021-Perspectives-Mendoza-NB.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-e7da03f9-7694-4886-88eb-c65c8c5b3020\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norman B. Mendoza, Allan B. I. Bernardo,\u00a0and John Ian Wilzon T. 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