Abstract
The current study investigates the mental health condition of Mainland Chinese in Canada and identifies the associated sociodemographic and COVID-19-related predictors. A sample of 471 Mainland Chinese aged 18 or older completed an online survey that collected information on demographics, experience, cognition, and behaviours related to the COVID-19 pandemic and mental health condition. Mental health condition was assessed with the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) for the depression, anxiety, and stress levels of Mainland Chinese during the pandemic. Moderate to severe depression, anxiety, and stress levels were respectively reported by 11.30%, 10.83%, and 5.10% of respondents. Univariate analysis of variance models (ANOVAs) were conducted to assess mental health condition variance as stratified by independent sociodemographic- or COVID-19-related explanatory variables, to identify possible predictors to be entered into the subsequent regression models. The regression models identified age, income level, health status, and perceived discrimination as significant sociodemographic predictors (absolute value of βs = 1.19–7.11, ps < 0.05), whereas self-infection worry, attitude towards Canadian measures, information confusion, food/goods stocking, and room cleaning/sanitizing were identified as significant COVID-19-reltaed predictors (absolute value of βs = 1.33–3.45, ps < 0.05) for mental health outcomes. The results shed light on our understanding of the major factors associated with the mental health condition of Mainland Chinese in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Highlights
The COVID-19 pandemic has widely spread across the world
The mental health of Chinese residents in Canada may be jeopardized during the pandemic. In light of these considerations, the primary goal of the current study was to fill in the gap in the literature to investigate the mental health condition of Mainland Chinese living in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic
The Pearson inter-item correlation analysis showed that the three items on health condition were positively correlated with each other
Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic has widely spread across the world. Since March 2020, Canada’s federal government implemented strict public health measures, including lockdowns, social distancing measures, and closing most public facilities, to restrict the spread of the virus [1,2]. Along with these measures, it has been evidenced that the COVID-19 outbreak has a detrimental effect on the psychological well-being of Canadians [3,4]. It was found that there was a significantly larger number of depression and stress symptoms reported in Canada than in other countries [5]. A survey of a nationally representative Canadian sample indicated that reported depression symptoms showed over a two-fold increase, and that anxiety symptoms showed nearly a four-fold increase [6].
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