Clinical Trial Details
— Status: Completed
Administrative data
| NCT number |
NCT05307588 |
| Other study ID # |
COVID-19 |
| Secondary ID |
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| Status |
Completed |
| Phase |
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| First received |
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| Last updated |
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| Start date |
June 1, 2020 |
| Est. completion date |
October 20, 2020 |
Study information
| Verified date |
March 2022 |
| Source |
Beni-Suef University |
| Contact |
n/a |
| Is FDA regulated |
No |
| Health authority |
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| Study type |
Observational
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Clinical Trial Summary
Design, sample, and setting This is a cross-sectional study using an Internet-based
self-administered questionnaire of closed-ended questions and using convenience sampling. In
total, 612 undergraduate students completed the survey in Mansoura University.
Data collection Data was collected anonymously through an online questionnaire created using
the technology of Google Forms provided by Google ™ and was constructed in Arabic language.
The questionnaire consisted of three sections. The first section assessed students' baseline
characteristics including sex, age, area of study, academic level, residence, marital status,
family members infected, close people infected, and knowing someone who died of the
infection.
The second section measured the psychosocial effects of COVID-19 pandemic using two
instruments, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness Scale, version 324 and
Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21).19 The UCLA Loneliness Scale is a widely used
self-report instrument of loneliness consisting of 20 items designed to measure both
emotional as well as social loneliness. Response of each item was rated on a four-point scale
from (1) never to (4) always felt as expressed in each item. Final score ranges from 20 to 80
with higher scores demonstrating higher feelings of loneliness. The scale's reliability was
found to be high with alpha coefficients ranging from 0.89 to 0.94 for samples of students.
The Arabic version of UCLA Loneliness Scale was used in the current study according to the
Arabic translation in Egyptian culture by Daswqee.20 The correlation coefficients values were
0.76 for females and 0.74 for males.
Description:
Since December 2019, the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread from Wuhan city
to different areas in China and around the world. On 11 March 2020, the World Health
Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. On 14 February 2020, the
Egyptian Ministry of Health reported the first case of COVID-19. To control the COVID-19
outbreak, the Egyptian government introduced preventive and containment measures with a
partial closure starting on 25 March. On 31 March, Egypt pronounced 710 COVID-19 cases and 46
related deaths with a mortality rate of 6.48%. As on 06 June 2020, there were 1497 new cases
with total cases of 32 612, a total of 1198 deaths and 8538 full recovery. Generally, several
potential stressors were caused by the pandemic that might lead to psychological distress and
life dissatisfaction. Individuals' overall assessments of their psychological wellbeing and
quality of life are referred to as life satisfaction. Psychological distress takes the shape
of a negative emotion, which contrasts with life contentment. It refers to people's
unfavorable emotional reactions to several stimuli, which might include tension, dread, worry
and psychological instability.
