Correlations between anxiety levels, gastrointestinal manifestations and social isolation following the lockdown due to coronavirus outbreak in Romanian students
Correlations between anxiety levels, gastrointestinal manifestations and social isolation following the lockdown due to coronavirus outbreak in Romanian students

Summary/Abstract: Background: People choosing to follow a university degree are exposed to different degrees ofstress and anxiety that might be higher of lower depending on the level of study, field ofinterest and even age and sex. It is a well-known fact that social isolation with little to nocontact with other people has an impact on the mental health of any individual.Objective: Theaim of this study was to evaluate the level of anxiety and its gastrointestinal impact as aconsequence of the lockdown caused by Covid-19.Method: A cross-sectional study wasconducted by using a single questionnaire representing a variety of the Hamilton scale foranxiety (HAM-A).Results: Out of a total of 38 results, 17 results were excluded as they werecomposed of people that are not students, but belong to the working and retiredclass.Conclusions: There seems to be a correlation between anxiety levels, gastrointestinalmanifestations and social isolation following the lockdown due to coronavirus outbreak, asobserved in this preliminary study of ours in Romanian students, considering that more thanhalf of the participants (61,91%) have reported mild to severe symptoms in all 14 categories ofthe scale and we observed that more than 50% of participants have reported mild tomoderate severity in all of the items within the gastrointestinal category.

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