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01-04-2022 | COVID-19 | Brief Report

COVID-19 Impact on Kazakhstan University Student Fear, Mental Health, and Substance Use

Authors: Vsevolod Konstantinov, Saule Berdenova, Gulnara Satkangulova, Alexander Reznik, Richard Isralowitz

Published in: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction | Issue 2/2022

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) was first detected in November 2019. The infection spread quickly in Wuhan (the capital of the Chinese province of Hubei) and then throughout China and other countries including the Kazakhstan located in Central Asia, the ninth largest country in the world in terms of land mass with a population of less than 20 million. …

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Title: COVID-19 Impact on Kazakhstan University Student Fear, Mental Health, and Substance Use
Authors: Vsevolod Konstantinov
Saule Berdenova
Gulnara Satkangulova
Alexander Reznik
Richard Isralowitz
Publication date: 01-04-2022
Publisher: Springer US
Keywords: COVID-19
Anxiety
Published in: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction / Issue 2/2022
Print ISSN: 1557-1874
Electronic ISSN: 1557-1882
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-020-00412-y

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