Covid-19 lockdown effects on academic functioning, mood, and health correlates: Data from dutch pharmacy students, phd candidates and postdocs

Pauline A. Hendriksen; Agnese Merlo; Elisabeth Y. Bijlsma; Ferdi Engels; Johan Garssen; Gillian Bruce; Joris C. Verster

doi:10.3390/data6110120

Covid-19 lockdown effects on academic functioning, mood, and health correlates: Data from dutch pharmacy students, phd candidates and postdocs

Pauline A. Hendriksen, Agnese Merlo, Elisabeth Y. Bijlsma, Ferdi Engels, Johan Garssen, Gillian Bruce, Joris C. Verster^*

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Abstract

Mixed results have been published on the impact of the 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its associated lockdown periods on academic functioning, mood, and health correlates such as alcohol consumption. Whereas a number of students report an impaired academic performance and increased alcohol intake during lockdown periods, other students report no change or an improvement in academic functioning and a reduced alcohol consumption. This data descriptor article describes the dataset of a study investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic functioning. To investigate this, an online survey was conducted among Dutch pharmacy students, PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers (postdocs) of Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic, the survey assessed possible changes in self-reported academic functioning, mood and health correlates such as alcohol consumption, perceived immune functioning and sleep quality. Retrospective assessments were made for four periods, including (1) the year 2019 (the period before COVID-19), (2) the first lockdown period (15 March–11 May 2020), (3) summer 2020 (no lockdown) and (4) the second lockdown (November 2020–April 2021). This article describes the content of the survey and corresponding dataset. The survey had a response rate of 24.3% and was completed by 345 participants.

Original language	English
Article number	120
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Journal	Data
Volume	6
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/data6110120
Publication status	Published - Nov 2021

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Conflicts of Interest: Over the past 3 years, J.C.V. has acted as a consultant/advisor for KNMP, More Labs, Red Bull, Sen-Jam Pharmaceutical, Toast!, Tomo, and ZBiotics. J.G. is a part-time employee of Nutricia Research and received research grants from the Nutricia research foundation, Top Institute Pharma, Top Institute Food and Nutrition, GSK, STW, NWO, Friesland Campina, CCC, Raak-Pro, and EU. The other authors have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose.

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Conflicts of Interest: Over the past 3 years, J.C.V. has acted as a consultant/advisor for KNMP, More Labs, Red Bull, Sen-Jam Pharmaceutical, Toast!, Tomo, and ZBiotics. J.G. is a part-time employee of Nutricia Research and received research grants from the Nutricia research foundation, Top Institute Pharma, Top Institute Food and Nutrition, GSK, STW, NWO, Friesland Campina, CCC, Raak-Pro, and EU. The other authors have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose.

Keywords

Academic performance
Alcohol consumption
COVID-19
Hangover
Lockdown
Mood
Online education
Quality of life
Sleep
Social interactions

UN SDGs

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Covid-19 lockdown effects on academic functioning, mood, and health correlates: Data from dutch pharmacy students, phd candidates and postdocs

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