The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stress, mental health and coping behavior in German University students – a longitudinal study before and after the onset of the pandemic

Table 3 Perceptions of all students about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their course of study and their economic and intangible existence (2020)

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on…
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on…		Strongly agree/agree/ undecided		Disagree/highly disagree		p^a
	Total n	n	%	n	%
study	1821	1549	85.1	272	14.9
Female	1282	1114	86.9	168	13.1	0.005
Male	413	336	81.4	77	18.6	0.005
MED	744	647	87.0	97	13.0	0.024
STEM	907	753	83.0	154	17.0
HSC	152	136	89.5	16	10.5
economic existence	1822	449	24.6	1373	75.4
Female	1283	306	23.9	977	76.1	0.802
Male	413	101	24.5	312	75.5	0.802
MED	741	134	18.1	607	81.9	0.000
STEM	910	277	30.4	633	69.6
HSC	153	34	22.2	119	77.8
intangible existence	1823	1244	68.2	579	31.8
Female	1284	889	69.2	395	30.8	0.014
Male	413	259	62.7	154	37.3	0.014
MED	743	477	64.2	266	35.8	0.005
STEM	910	652	71.6	258	28.4
HSC	152	101	66.4	51	33.6

^aPearson’s chi-squared test; p values are for the differences between female and male, as well as between the study subgroups of medicine (MED); science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM); and health sciences (HSC) in the use of preventive measures

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