COVID-19 Fear Association with Ukrainian "Help Profession" Student Mental Health, Substance Use, and Resilience.

PSYCHOLOGY of medical students; COVID-19; SUBSTANCE abuse; ANALYSIS of variance; PSYCHOLOGY of college students; SOCIAL workers; CROSS-sectional method; ONE-way analysis of variance; FEAR; MENTAL health; ATTITUDES toward illness; PEARSON correlation (Statistics); T-test (Statistics); SEX distribution; STUDENTS; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CHI-squared test; STUDENT attitudes; DATA analysis software; PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience

In the article, the authors discuss the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Ukrainian university students' fear, mental health and substance use. Among the methods used in the study are the Pearson's Chi-square test, t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Based on the results, majority of students showed deterioration of their psycho-emotional state due to the pandemic.