Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic, since its beginning in December 2019, has altered every aspect of human life. In Vietnam, the pandemic is in its fourth peak and is the most serious so far, putting Vietnam in the list of top 30 countries with the highest daily cases. In this paper, we wish to identify the magnitude of its impact on college students in Vietnam. As far as we’re concerned, college students belong to the most affected groups in the population, especially in big cities that have been hitting hard by the virus. We conducted an online survey from 31 May 2021 to 9 June 2021, asking students from four representative regions in Vietnam to describe how the pandemic has changed their lifestyle and studying environment, as well as their awareness, compliance, and psychological state. The collected answers were processed to eliminate unreliable ones then prepared for sentiment analysis. To analyze the relationship among the variables, we performed a variety of statistical tests, including Shapiro–Wilk, Mc Nemar, Mann–Whitney–Wilcoxon, Kruskal–Wallis, and Pearson’s Chi-square tests. Among 1875 students who participated, many did not embrace online education. A total of 64.53% of them refused to think that online education would be the upcoming trend. During the pandemic, nearly one quarter of students were in a negative mood. About the same number showed signs of depression. We also observed that there were increasing patterns in sleeping time, body weight, and sedentary lifestyle. However, they maintained a positive attitude toward health protection and compliance with government regulations (65.81%). As far as we know, this is the first project to conduct such a large-scale survey analysis on students in Vietnam. The findings of the paper help us take notice of financial and mental needs and perspective issues for indigent students, which contributes to reducing the pandemic’s negative effects and going forwards to a better and more sustainable life.
Highlights
Until June 2021, the world has known more than 170 million people infected withCOVID-19 and more than 3.5 million deaths from this disease [1]
The purpose of this study is to investigate Vietnamese students’ emotions, psychology, and lifestyle changes during COVID-19
The study was conducted with the following assumption: there has been a negative impact on many aspects of student life such as lifestyle, mental, and education
Summary
Until June 2021, the world has known more than 170 million people infected with. COVID-19 and more than 3.5 million deaths from this disease [1]. For those whose loved ones have passed away and those who suffer lifelong sequelae, the consequences of the Sustainability 2021, 13, 10762. Sustainability 2021, 13, 10762 pandemic are forever irreversible. In the absence of immunity, one infected person can infect from 3.5 to 6.4 other people, which manifests its terrifying infectivity. With its rapid spread when causing a pandemic, COVID-19 has changed human life. Wearing masks in public and social distancing have kept people away from the transitional space in the development of human relationships. The word “cave” here should be understood as a virtual world into which we crawl more often and get separated from the community
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