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Increases in anxiety, depression, traumatic stress, and even suicidal thinking associated with COVID-19 quarantine and related social restrictions have been amply documented in various countries and populations. To elucidate risk factors for these psychological effects, researchers surveyed French university students (N=69,054; 4% of eligible students) confined to quarantine.
Anxiety, traumatic stress, depression, and suicidal thinking were reported by 28%, 22%, 16%, and 11% of students, respectively, with 43% reporting at least one risk factor. Demographic factors associated with ≥1 outcome were being nonbinary (odds ratio, 3.57) or female (OR, 2.10), living in areas with high infection rates (OR, 1.09), and earlier year of study (year 6 vs…