Exposure of Applied Sciences Bachelor Students to Stressors, Relationship with their Mental Health, and exploration of potential protective factors - T0.5-Nursing

The objective of this study HEalStud was to identify the resources likely to protect the mental health of students in the institutions of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO). Four data collections were carried out. The first (T0) took place in February 2020, i.e. just before the first wave of COVID-19 and the sanitary measures that followed it. The second (T1) took place in February 2021, i.e. before the 3rd wave of the pandemic. The third (T2) took place in March 2022, during the lifting of the sanitary measures. An additional survey (T0.5) was conducted among students in the Health field in September 2020, accompanied by focus groups aimed at understanding the experiences of students who had been mobilized in the field during the pandemic. Students from all fields of study at the HES-SO in their 1st and 2nd year Bachelor's degrees in 2020 were invited to respond. They completed questionnaires concerning their demographic characteristics, their level of perceived stress, their resilience, their level of self-efficacy, their capacity for mindfulness, their perceived social support, their degree of flourishing, their level of post-traumatic growth and their exposure to COVID-19.