The centrality of the settings approach in building back better and fairer

Dooris, Mark; Baybutt, Michelle

doi:10.1080/14635240.2021.1935742

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“…As Dooris and Baybutt have recently emphasized, the importance of settings is presently re-affirmed, because, to a large extent, the recovery from COVID-19 will be determined by and experienced in the settings in which we live our lives, and a settings approach is thus needed to mitigate the negative impacts of COVID-19 ( 33 ). This is especially true for universities as settings, because those institutions that have already established themselves as Health Promoting Universities managed to promote their students' and staff's resilience and mental health in the COVID-19 crisis.…”

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COVID-19 related disruption in higher education students' health and wellbeing: Implications for university action

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Helmer²,

Heinrichs³

2022

Front. Public Health

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The COVID 19 pandemic has led to substantial disruptions in the lives of students in higher education. Partial or full closures of institutions for face-to-face teaching or consultations over a long-lasting period of time in many countries have had significant consequences on the psychosocial health and wellbeing of many students. This perspectives article summarizes the implications on mental, social, and behavioral aspects of students' wellbeing. Moreover, the need for health promoting und supportive services, programmes, structures, and policies is outlined with recommendations for institutional actions on the level of teaching practice, counseling services, and health monitoring, and with the call to re-affirm the wider policy-oriented approach of the Health Promoting University.

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Section: Discussion and Recommendationsmentioning

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COVID-19 related disruption in higher education students' health and wellbeing: Implications for university action

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Helmer²,

Heinrichs³

2022

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“…68,71 Our results point to the need for a health-promoting settings approach to foster students' mental health, because the recovery from the pandemic is largely determined by characteristics of the settings in which they live. 72 During the pandemic, "Health Promoting Universities" were reaffirmed as highly suitable for promoting their students' resilience and mental health, whereby a special focus should lie on student groups at high risk as social inequalities might have increased during the pandemic. 67 Further research should also develop tailored online platforms and tools in line with students' needs and practices.…”

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University Students’ Financial Situation During COVID-19 and Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms: Results of the COVID-19 German Student Well-Being Study (C19 GSWS)

Negash,

Horn,

Heumann

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Background:The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on students' financial situation as well as on their mental health. Aim: To examine the reported change in the financial situation of German university students before and across two time points of the COVID-19 pandemic and to evaluate its associations with anxiety and depressive symptoms. Methods: We used data from the cross-sectional COVID-19 German Student Well-being Study conducted at five German universities (N = 7203). Linear regression models were used to analyze associations between a reported change in financial situation and anxiety and depressive symptoms. Results: Twenty-eight percent of the participants reported to have a worsened financial situation at the time of the survey compared to the time prior to the pandemic. A worsened financial situation at the time of the survey as compared to prior to the pandemic was associated with higher levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms reported in all three depression and anxiety scales [a 1.46 point increase on the CES-D 8 scale (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.19; 1.73), a 0.37-point increase in PHQ-2 (95% CI: 0.28; 0.46), and a 0.45-point increase in GAD-2 (95% CI: 0.35; 0.55)]. An improved financial situation, on the other hand, was associated with lower levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms. As for the second change, comparing the current financial situation with the situation during the first wave of the pandemic, the associations with anxiety and depressive symptoms were broadly similar. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that students are a vulnerable population in need of mental and financial support during times of crisis. Future research is needed to obtain insights into potential long-term effects of the pandemic on students' mental health.

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“…The importance of settings as “.. a place or context in which people engage in daily activities in which environmental, organizational and personal factors interact to affect health and wellbeing” ( 5 ) for sustainable health and wellbeing has been expressed in many different WHO documents since the Ottawa Charter has shed the light on the settings-based approach to health promotion in 1986. The importance of settings is presently re-affirmed, because the recovery from COVID-19 will to a large extent be determined by and experienced in the settings in which we live our lives, and a settings approach is thus needed to mitigate the negative impacts of COVID-19 ( 6 ). Whitelaw et al ( 7 ) have distinguished different types of setting based approaches and provided a better understanding of how setting-based health promotion is implemented in current practice.…”

Section: Health Promotion In Settingsmentioning

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Grand Challenges for Public Health Education and Promotion

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2022

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The centrality of the settings approach in building back better and fairer

Cited by 7 publications

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COVID-19 related disruption in higher education students' health and wellbeing: Implications for university action

COVID-19 related disruption in higher education students' health and wellbeing: Implications for university action

University Students’ Financial Situation During COVID-19 and Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms: Results of the COVID-19 German Student Well-Being Study (C19 GSWS)

Grand Challenges for Public Health Education and Promotion

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