As of 25th July 2021, there were over 194 million confirmed cases and 4.15 million confirmed deaths globally. Other studies portray that patients with underlying medical conditions such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, cancer, and old-age people are more likely to experience severe morbidity. Some of the clinical manifestations include dry cough, fever, dyspnea, muscle aches, etc. Symptoms appear after an incubation period between 2–14 days post-exposure and range from asymptomatic to severe pneumonia. SARS-COV-2 is transmitted through respiratory droplets, close contact, and asymptomatic carriers. It was first identified in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China in December 2019 and declared by WHO a global pandemic in March 2020. Therefore, more attention should be put on youth’s mental health during this pandemic.ĬOVID-19 is a highly infectious respiratory disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2). Our findings demonstrated that COVID-19 had a negative psychological impact on university students. Chi square test showed a statistically significant difference in depression and anxiety levels with the Chinese group compared to both African groups, and no significant difference between both African groups. There was no statistically significant variable for anxiety. Educational background was strongly associated with depression. Africans in Africa had 66.0% with depression and 50.5% with anxiety. Gender was strongly associated with both depression and anxiety, and religion and having family members with COVID-19 with anxiety only. The African students in China group had 70.3% with depression and 45.0% with anxiety. The variable associated with both depression and anxiety was education major, with depression only was parent’s educational background and with anxiety only was gender. Comparing the individual groups separately using chi square (P<0.05), the Chinese students in China group had 35.6% with depression and 13.1% with anxiety. In contrast, age, gender, educational background, and major showed no significant association. Chi squared tests at significance level (P<0.05) showed that country of citizenship, religion, parents’ educational background, household monthly income and, having family members with COVID-19 variables were strongly associated with depression and anxiety. Comparing all groups combined, of the 636 participants, 361 (56.8%) had depression and 227 (35.7%) had anxiety. The study was conducted through online surveys, with 684 participants using Patient Health Questionnaire-9 and Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 standardized scales. In this study, we investigated the prevalence of depression and anxiety in university students in China and Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic, the significant factors contributing to the prevalence of anxiety and depression, the differences in factors affecting the different groups being investigated and to emphasize that psychological intervention are as important as the physical interventions during and after the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic is alarmingly a global health catastrophe that has created an unprecedented mental health decline especially in young adults, who have been noted to be a vulnerable population. , * and Limin Chen, Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization Tianwen Huang, Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Kelvin Stefan Osafo, Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Tsitsi Ruvai, Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Tawanda Chakanyuka, Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Panashe Makota, Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, #ĭonald Tafadzwa Chikomo, Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, # Pamela Marahwa, Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, #
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