Stress during online learning in the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 among high school students in Nong Ri Sub-district, Mueang Chonburi District, Chonburi Province

Abstract

          This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the prevalence and factors associated with the stress with a level influencing their daily life among high school students during online learning in the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 in a school located in Nong Ri sub-district, Mueang district, Chonburi province. Data were collected among 152 samples during December 2022 – January 2023 by using self-administered questionnaire and analyzed by descriptive statistics: frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, median, minimum, and maximum; inferential statistics: Chi-square test, Mann-Whitney U test, and multiple logistic regression.

          The results showed that the prevalence of participants having the influential stress was 76.97%. Factors associated significantly with the stress influencing their daily life were family expenditure problems (OR = 5.15, 95% CI = 2.14 – 12.44), inappropriate location (OR = 2.90, 95% CI = 1.25 – 6.76), and duration of online learning (OR = 2.58, 95% CI = 1.10 – 6.02).

         The school should support an essential equipment for online learning, arrange an appropriate duration per lesson for online learning, and provide advice to students’ parents on setting up an appropriate online learning facility. Moreover, surveillance and stress screening should be addressed including a system of counseling and support for students having stress with a level influencing their daily life to help reduce the stress of students during online learning.