Stress and headaches in university students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Autor: Francisco J; Department of Psychology and Health Studies, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.; College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada., Golshan F; Department of Psychology and Health Studies, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada., Morrison TG; Department of Psychology and Health Studies, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada., Mickleborough M; Department of Psychology and Health Studies, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2023 Nov 22; Vol. 18 (11), pp. e0288745. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Nov 22 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288745
Abstrakt: With regards to the relationship between mental and physical health conditions, some studies predict increased headache frequency as a result of exposure to stressful situations. Thus, the purpose of our study was to investigate whether headache characteristics among a sample of university students (N = 234) correlated with fear of COVID-19, stress and quality of life vis-à-vis the pandemic. We found statistically significant positive correlations between headache frequency and both general stress and quality of life. Further, results from a multiple regression analysis suggested that fear of COVID-19 did not account for incremental variance in headache intensity. Explanations for our key findings, limitations of our study, and future directions for post pandemic studies on headache experience are outlined.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2023 Francisco et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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