12/1/2021, 3:02:36 PM · by ransomnote · 58 replies
greatgameindia.com ^ | 12/1/2021 | GreatGameIndia
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They are of no furthur use.
Posted on 12/02/2021 11:54:46 AM PST by george76
Following research about college students from before COVID-19 with a survey at the pandemic's Year I mark, an international team of scientists detected no improvement in the students' mental well-being even after the introduction of vaccines and the easing of social distancing methods, let alone a return to campuses in many instances.
In fact, the researchers in spring 2021 found marked declines in both physical and emotional health—students sustained a 35% decline in their number of daily steps and a 36% increase in the number at risk of clinical depression, or roughly half of the total students surveyed.
The scientists, including one each from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University as well as the University of California San Diego and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, combined biometric and survey data from several groups of college students (totaling 1,179) from spring 2019 to spring 2021 in a study published online Dec. 2 in Scientific Reports.
``We were surprised when the data showed us that some of the initial disruptions to lifestyle and mental health that occurred in the spring of 2020 persisted through spring 2021 while restrictions were being lifted',' said Osea Giuntella, an expert in labor and health economics and an assistant professor in the Department of Economics in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences.
The researchers, in a paper published earlier this year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), used data from prior to the pandemic's spring 2020 international onset to document sizeable disruptions in sleep, physical activity, social interactions and even screen time among college students. The Scientific Reports paper examines a continuation of "lifestyle and mental health disruptions one year" into these times of COVID. While the new study contributes to a larger focus on habit formation and adaptation to environmental changes, it offers a data-distilled look at how this subset suffered physical and mental well-being alterations, which could influence policies and protocols in the short- and long-term.
"These long-lasting effects of the pandemic are worrisome. Since lifestyle and mental health did not rebound as the pandemic started to ease, it will be important to develop interventions to reduce sedentary habits and improve well-being" said Silvia Saccardo, assistant professor in the department of Social and Decision Sciences in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University.
The study involved five cohorts of University of Pittsburgh students between spring 2019 and spring 2021: median age 19, with 95% of the respondents under the age of 23. Data was collected via wearable devices that the students used for one semester. The first two "waves" came in the spring and fall semesters of 2019, before COVID-19 took hold. The spring 2020 cohort began in February 2020, barely a month before the pandemic sent Americans home to work or study, and continued through April 2020—some lingering into July 2020. The final two cohorts were the September-November 2020 fall semester and the February-May 2021 spring semester. April 2021 marked the start when COVID-19 vaccinations were available in Pennsylvania, and by May's end 95% of the surveyed students received a first dose at least and 85% received both doses.
Their physical activity waxed and waned, from 4,600 steps per day from March-April 2020 to 6,300 in May-July 2020 to 6,900 in September-November 2020… then dipping again this past spring, February-May 2021, to 6,400. Still and all, it hadn't returned to the pre-pandemic levels of 9,800 steps per day. The same happened to their active or non-sedentary time each day, ranging from 4.3 hours pre-pandemic to 2.9 hours at pandemic's start to roughly 3.6 hours both this past fall (2020) and spring (2021) semesters.
Screen time remained "significantly" higher than pre-pandemic levels, the researchers wrote, though time spent in social interactions fairly doubled back to normal levels over that first year, from 40 minutes to 1.5 hours.
Using the Center for Epidemiological Depression scale, the primary measure for mental health, the researchers found large increases in symptoms of depression from spring 2020 through spring 2021. While students' scores increased 50% at the onset of the pandemic in 2020, they were still overall 24% higher than pre-pandemic levels when recorded in spring 2021.
In the end, the researchers estimated that 42-56% of their participants by spring 2021 were at risk for clinical depression.
"Our results show how It is crucial for universities to take precautions and find ways improve mental and physical wellbeing," Giuntella and Saccardo said.
How shocking.
The majority of University students are enrolled for the purpose of indoctrination, not learning critical thinking.
Whether they are well or not doesn’t matter much.Most of them are pretty much brain dead anyway, just future cannon fodder for the DNC , BLM and ANTIFA. Those who can think critically are taking employment abroad, far away from their insane leftist co-eds or should I say co-indoctrinists?
Time to build more safe places?
They are of no furthur use.
Just like the rest of the Democrats. Many have gone insane. They don’t handle stress well.
My son is a freshman at Cal State and despite CA’s obnoxious masking, testing, and vaccine requirements, is nevertheless having a ball. He has a girlfriend and new friends, likes his in-person classes, watches movies and goes bowling and hiking and ice skating and to parties (not sure when he studies).
He had not been around other students or in a classroom since March 2020. New college students in CA in the 2021-22 school year are hungry for human, non-virtual interaction and it shows with all the on-campus fun they are having this year.
The researchers, in a paper published earlier this year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), used data from prior to the pandemic’s spring 2020 international onset to document sizeable disruptions in sleep, physical activity, social interactions and even screen time among college students.
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Who would have thought of that? Hell, take a dog and lock it up in the house for a year; no walks, no exercise; and I guarantee that dog will be in rough shape.
Younger kids are in worse shape. And democRATs did this intentionally. They are trying to drive down the average IQ in America. Also government schools do a good job, but importing foreign kids works faster.
Life’s Hard, It’s harder when you’re Stupid.
What a bunch of whiney children
| From Cathi | 12/02/2021 11:31:01 AM PST replied |
Saw this post on the Denninger comment section and found it interesting. “From a college parent FB page. I posted this in the Bar, but thought it is relevant here too. My DD is a freshman at Michigan State and has been sick all semester, sinus infections, strep, flu, etc. The healthcare system is so overwhelmed near the school. It’s 7 hours sometimes to see a dr at urgent care. She can’t even get into the health center on campus. She has allergies and these old dorms do not help. They did check for mold but only found surface mold that they cleaned. She called me crying this morning because she can’t take being sick anymore. Can anyone recommend a dr within 30 minutes of East Lansing that would be willing to see a new patient? We called one today however they can’t take new patients for 6 months” |
The democrats are guilty of all the psychological torture they’re making people endure.
Those same young adults of thier time stormed the beaches of Normandy. hard to believe these snowflakes
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