COVID-19, lack of a clear medicine treatment and vaccine in students, perception the pandemic as risky and dangerous, and the concerns about the ways of avoiding the pandemic, distant education and  online exams, possible economic difficulties caused anxieties. We have aimed to identify these anxieties and their psychological and physiological effects with this study. For this purpose, we have conducted a web based cross-sectional survey with the Google form. We have analyzed the data with Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure, Bartlett’s test of sphericity, Cronbach’s alpha and Pearson correlation techniques.

In this study, 43% of the students identified the risk of infecting with the SARS CoV-2 virus as very high-high (43.0%) and 29.3% of the students identified it as deadly dangerous. The adaptation of the students to the individual and social measures for avoiding the pandemic was 98.6%. The highest anxiety element was the possible economic difficulty at the end of the pandemic with 93.0%. We have found that the pandemic course highly affected psychosocial effects like sleeping disorder (66.9%) and washing hands continuously (58.6%). Being female, being over 22 and being in internship period were the elements that increased the anxiety in students. It has been determined that this epidemic is a factor that increases the anxiety level of medical and dental students who play an active role in the protection of public health, and we think that measures to relieve anxiety should be implemented immediately.

COVID-19, pandemic, psychological and physiological effects, anxiety.

Received: January 13, 2022; Accepted: March 24, 2022; Published: May 13, 2022

How to cite this article: Müzeyyen Cömert Aksu and Tuğba İlayda Aksu, Adaptation to measures for avoiding the pandemic COVID-19 - general overview of psychological and physiological effects on medical and dental students, JP Journal of Biostatistics 20 (2022), 83-100. http://dx.doi.org/10.17654/0973514322015

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