Mental Health and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Higher Education: Evidence from G20 Countries
Journal of Public Health Research 2020; volume 9(s1):2010 THE IMPACT OF COVID IN HIGHER EDUCATION Mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in higher education: Evidence from G20 countries Mohammad Nurunnabi,1,2 Norah Almusharraf,3 Dalal Aldeghaither4 1Department of Accounting, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 2St Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK; 3College of Humanities, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 4College of Science and Health Profession, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North, and South America have Abstract announced school closures and are forced to convert to online th 1 Background: The spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) has teaching platforms on March 13 , 2020. This worldwide decision resulted in a drastic alteration to billions of individuals’ emotional, by the countries’ governors was made to limit the increase and physical, mental, social, and financial status. As of July 21st, 2020, transmission of this virus outbreak and promote social distancing there had been 14.35 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, for health and safety purposes. including 0.60 million deaths in 216 countries. Although there is an apparent global effort to limiting the Design and Methods: The study explores health and well- spread of COVID-19 using various protocols, the emotional, being in universities within the G20 countries (19 member coun- physical, psychological, social, and financial status of billions of tries
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