Features of students' life activity and well-being in the digital environment

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Introduction. The well-being of students with mixed form of education — full-time and distance learning, which entered the educational process of most universities in the spring of 2021, have not been sufficiently studied.

The aim is to study the life activity and well-being of students various universities in a digital environment with a mixed form of education.

Materials and methods. During March 2021, an anonymous online survey was conducted of 126 students of Sechenov University (SU), 282 students of Omsk State Medical University and 410 students of Voronezh State Pedagogical University. Most of the students at universities were girls. The questions were closed-ended with formalized answers and were aimed at identifying the peculiarities of students' life and complaints about their health.

Results. A comparison of the answers concerning the students' life activity did not reveal significant differences in the prevalence of the studied factors in the three universities. 46.03–54.61% of students sleep less than the required norm on weekdays; 52.48–58.73% of students use gadgets 6–7 hours a day or longer. The experience of distance learning has shown that 62.70–74.39% of students consider video lectures a convenient form of learning. The higher prevalence of complaints among SU students, compared with the other two universities, suggested a higher incidence of neurotic reactions of asthenic type, headache syndrome, obsessive-phobic syndrome, gastrointestinal dysfunction in SU students.

Limitations. This study did not aim to analyze all the features of the life of modern students in the digital environment, only indicators that could be associated with the transition to a blended form of education in medical and pedagogical universities were considered.The conducted anonymous online survey of 818 students of various universities studying in a mixed form represents a sufficient reference sample to achieve the goal of the study.

Conclusions. Digitalization of higher education should be aimed at improving the management of the educational process, reducing transfers in medical universities, switching to video lectures and well-systematized and easy-to-use educational content while maintaining practical classes. Education of high school and university students in mental health is necessary, especially in the digital environment.

Contribution:

Rapoport I.K. — concept and design of the study, analysis of the material, writing, editing;

Laponova E.D., Gudinova Zh.V., Sokolova N.V. — collection and processing of the material, editing;

Tikashkina O.V. — collection and processing of the material, analysis of the material;

Vaskovskaya Yu.S. — collection and processing of the material.

All authors are responsible for the integrity of all parts of the manuscript and approval of the manuscript final version.

Conflict of interest. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

Acknowledgement. The study had no sponsorship.

Received: August 13, 2021 / Accepted: November 25, 2021 / Published: April 08, 2022

About the authors

Irina Kalmanovna Rapoport

Federal Scientific Center of Hygiene named after F.F. Erisman of the Federal Service for Supervision in Protection of the Rights of Consumer and Man Wellbeing

Author for correspondence.
Email: ikrapoport@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9989-4491

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Chief Researcher of the Department of Hygiene of Children, Adolescents and Youth of the Institute of Complex Hygiene Problems of «Federal Scientific Center of Hygiene named after F.F. Erisman» of Rospotrebnadzor, 141014, Mytishchi, Russian Federation.

e-mail: ikrapoport@yandex.ru

Russian Federation

Evgeniya D. Laponova

First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University)

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8503-2989
Russian Federation

Zhanna V. Gudinova

Omsk State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7433-8539
Russian Federation

Natalia V. Sokolova

Voronezh State Pedagogical University of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5303-850X
Russian Federation

Olga V. Tikashkina

Federal Scientific Center of Hygiene named after F.F. Erisman of the Federal Service for Supervision in Protection of the Rights of Consumer and Man Wellbeing

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0635-075X
Russian Federation

Yulia S. Vaskovskaya

Omsk State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4172-6129
Russian Federation

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