COVIDCollegeStacked: College Experience Before, During, After Covid (Stacked...

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College Experience Before, During, After Covid (Stacked Format)

Description

Measures on college students before, during, and after the Covid-19 pandemic

Format

A data frame with 492 observations on the following 11 variables. Values are averages over days in each time period.

Period

Before=prior to March 2020, During=March 2020 to July 2021, After = after July 2021

Still

Time spent still (no movement) in seconds

Steps

Number of steps per day

PhoneUnlocked

Amount of time that a student uses their phone in unlocked state (i.e., total phone usage duration)

Sleep

Sleep duration (based on a predictive model) in hours

Anxious

Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems? Feeling nervous, anxious or on edge (0: Not at all; 1: Several days; 2: More than half the days; 3: Nearly every day)

Depressed

Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems? Feeling down, depressed or hopeless (0: Not at all; 1: Several days; 2: More than half the days; 3: Nearly every day)

Social

Have you spent most of your time alone or with others today? (1: Almost always alone; 2: Mostly alone, a little time with others; 3: Equal amounts of time alone and with others; 4: Mostly with others, a little time alone; 5: Almost always with others)

FeelGood

Right now, Overall, I feel good about myself (1: Not at All; 2: A Little Bit; 3: Somewhat; 4: Very Much; 5: Extremely)

Stress

Are you feeling stressed now? (1: Not at All; 2: A Little Bit; 3: Somewhat; 4: Very Much; 5: Extremely)

Sex

Self-reported sex of the participant (F, M, or both)

Details

The COVID-19 pandemic changed college life dramatically for many students. Like many colleges, the college where these data were collected suddenly went remote in March 2020, and for the 2020-2021 school year only about half of the students attended in-person, most classes were held online, and there were strict restrictions on social gatherings. Campus operations returned mostly to normal for the 2021-2022 school year. Students in college from 2018-2022 spanned college life before, during, and after the pandemic-induced changes to college life, and this dataset includes various mobile sensing and mental health variables averaged over these three time periods.

Note: This dataset, COVIDCollegeStacked, contains the same data as COVIDCollege, but rearranged in a different format. Here instead of different variables for each time period, the three time periods are stacked into one variable and an additional variable, Period, denotes whether the data value is from before, during, or after the pandemic-induced changes to college life.)

Source

Subigya Nepal, et. al. "Capturing the College Experience: A Four-Year Mobile Sensing Study of Mental Health, Resilience, and Behavior of College Students during the Pandemic", Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 8, 1, Article 38 (March 2024).

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