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01-12-2021 | COVID-19 | Brief Report

COVID 19 Fear, Stress, Anxiety, and Substance Use Among Russian and Belarusian University Students

Authors: Valentina Gritsenko, Oleg Skugarevsky, Vsevolod Konstantinov, Natallia Khamenka, Tatyana Marinova, Alexander Reznik, Richard Isralowitz

Published in: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction | Issue 6/2021

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) was first detected in November 2019 (Chan et al. 2020). The infection spread quickly in Wuhan (the capital of the Chinese province of Hubei) and then throughout China and other countries including the Russian Federation (RF) and Republic of Belarus (RB). In early May, more than 190,000 Russians and 20,168 Belarusian were infected (Johns Hopkins University 2020). …

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Title: COVID 19 Fear, Stress, Anxiety, and Substance Use Among Russian and Belarusian University Students
Authors: Valentina Gritsenko
Oleg Skugarevsky
Vsevolod Konstantinov
Natallia Khamenka
Tatyana Marinova
Alexander Reznik
Richard Isralowitz
Publication date: 01-12-2021
Publisher: Springer US
Keywords: COVID-19
Anxiety
Published in: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction / Issue 6/2021
Print ISSN: 1557-1874
Electronic ISSN: 1557-1882
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-020-00330-z

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