Research question / project object:

How healthy are the students at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences? What influences the health, well-being and health literacy of students? What differences are there compared to before and during the coronavirus pandemic measures?

Project data

Project name:Student health at the HS-Nordhausen
Running time:10/2020 - 09/2021
Project organiser:
Project management:

Prof Dr Petra Johanna Brzank

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Project partners:
Funding amount:
Third-party donors:
  • ISRV funds

Summary of the project

In the summer semester 2019, a standardised online survey of students at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences was designed with the students in the "WP Student Health Management" based on a survey at Fulda University of Applied Sciences and invited to respond. A data set of 650 valid cases is available for the secondary evaluation. A repeat survey is planned for the summer semester of 2021, which will make it possible to present the health status and health literacy before and during the coronavirus pandemic.

Impact of the corona pandemic on research:

No effects were recorded

Project-related publications

Various publications are planned.

Lectures

  • Brzank, P., Guirgis, F. (2021): "Health and health literacy of students at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences: Before and during the Corona pandemic measures. Results of an online (repeat) survey", invited lecture at the DGMP/DGMS Congress on 1/17 September 2021.

Contact

Institute:

House 34 - IRSV - a modern low-rise building on our green campus. There are trees in the background.

ISRV - Institute for Social Medicine, Rehabilitation Sciences and Health Services Research