Abstract
A survey of 3,032 university students in the Philippines during the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown in the country (March to April 2020) revealed that 44.66% met the cutoff score for generalized anxiety symptoms (GAD-2) and 62.40% reported having very bad to bad sleep quality; these symptoms are also negatively correlated with measures of psychological well-being. We also found that, among those screened by the GAD-2, 40% (n = 542) and 51.55% (n = 698) met the cutoff score for moderate and severe anxiety on the GAD-7, respectively. The sector of the Philippine population lost their usual access to mental health services in their school campuses, and the paper describes how their mental health needs during the pandemic remain unattended, as university campuses remain closed even eighteen months after.
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