Mental health of students and non-students during the COVID-19 pandemic| ��ƽ��

Comparison of the frequency of depressive symptoms, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts among students and young people who are not students in France, from March 2020 to January 2021

Characteristic	Students	Non-students
Depressive symptoms	36.6%	20.1%
Anxiety	27.5%	16.9%
Suicidal thoughts	12.7%	7.9%

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Release date

September 2022

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Region

France

Survey time period

March 2020 - January 2021

Number of respondents

3,783 respondents

Special properties

Students residing in France

Method of interview

Computer-assisted web interviews (CAWI)

Supplementary notes

The Confins study, launched in March 2020, is conducted by the company Kappa Santé, in collaboration with its start-up Kap Code and the i-Share study team from the University of Bordeaux. It is a longitudinal cohort collected online. Recruitment was done through traditional media, social networks, and email campaigns. Any French-speaking adult who had been in a lockdown situation was eligible.
The respondents are not representative of the population; nearly four out of five participants are women, and about one in five participants reported a history of psychiatric disorders.

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Analyses conducted between March 2020 and January 2021 by Confins show that students exhibit higher frequencies of mental health disorders than non-students, notably depressive symptoms (37 percent versus 20 percent), anxiety (28 percent versus 17 percent), and suicidal thoughts (13 percent versus 8 percent).

This comparative analysis tends to indicate that, although the entire French population was affected by the health crisis and associated restrictions, students may have constituted a particularly vulnerable population, especially during lockdown periods.