Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19010171
Keywords
COVID-19; mental health; Mainland Chinese; sociodemographic predictors; COVID-19-related predictors
Funding
- New Frontiers Research Fund
- Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) guidelines [NFRF-2019-00012]
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This study investigates the mental health condition of Mainland Chinese in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic and identifies sociodemographic and COVID-19-related predictors. The results reveal significant sociodemographic predictors such as age, income level, health status, and perceived discrimination, as well as significant COVID-19-related predictors including self-infection worry, attitude towards Canadian measures, information confusion, food/goods stocking, and room cleaning/sanitizing.
The current study investigates the mental health condition of Mainland Chinese in Canada and identifies the associated sociodemographic and COVID-19-related predictors. A sample of 471 Mainland Chinese aged 18 or older completed an online survey that collected information on demographics, experience, cognition, and behaviours related to the COVID-19 pandemic and mental health condition. Mental health condition was assessed with the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) for the depression, anxiety, and stress levels of Mainland Chinese during the pandemic. Moderate to severe depression, anxiety, and stress levels were respectively reported by 11.30%, 10.83%, and 5.10% of respondents. Univariate analysis of variance models (ANOVAs) were conducted to assess mental health condition variance as stratified by independent sociodemographic-or COVID-19-related explanatory variables, to identify possible predictors to be entered into the subsequent regression models. The regression models identified age, income level, health status, and perceived discrimination as significant sociodemographic predictors (absolute value of beta s = 1.19-7.11, ps < 0.05), whereas self-infection worry, attitude towards Canadian measures, information confusion, food/goods stocking, and room cleaning/sanitizing were identified as significant COVID-19-reltaed predictors (absolute value of beta s = 1.33-3.45, ps < 0.05) for mental health outcomes. The results shed light on our understanding of the major factors associated with the mental health condition of Mainland Chinese in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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