Background and Objectives: The novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic causes great public health and socioeconomic harms. Worldwide many countries implemented quarantine policies to minimize the spread of this highly contagious disease. The present study aim was to investigate the impact of quarantine on the medical students’ mental wellbeing and learning behaviors. Methods: In this descriptive study, we used a questionnaire with a Five-Point Likert Scale to collect the information. The questionnaire was distributed among 625 medical students through their emails with a response rate of 530 (84.8%), majority 294 (55.47%) being female. The survey questionnaire consisted of total 20 items; 12 items were related to psychological wellbeing and stress-allied queries and 08 items were about learning behaviors. Results: The findings encompass two important characteristics related to quarantine, psychological wellbeing, and learning behaviors. A combined cohort of 234 medical students, either female or male, (which was 44.1% of the total responders) showed a sense of being emotionally detached from family, friends and fellow students, 125/ 530 (23.5%) medical students felt disheartened. Both female and male medical students showed a marked decrease in their overall work performance. Moreover, 56.2% of the total students (61.5% of the females and 49.5% of the males) felt a decrease in the time they spent studying. Conclusions: Both female and male medical students have identified that quarantine has caused them to feel emotionally detached from family, fellows, and friends and decrease their overall work performance and study period. The findings also show that one-fourth of the medical students who participated in this study felt disheartened during the quarantine period. The long-term quarantine due to COVID-19 pandemic may causes further worsening in the psychological and learning behaviors of these medical students. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.COVID19-S4.2809 How to cite this:Meo SA, Abukhalaf AA, Alomar AA, Sattar K, Klonoff DC. COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact of Quarantine on Medical Students’ Mental Wellbeing and Learning Behaviors. Pak J Med Sci. 2020;36(COVID19-S4):---------. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.COVID19-S4.2809 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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机译：背景和目标：新型冠状病毒Covid-19大流行引起了很大的公共卫生和社会经济危害。世界各国许多国家实施了检疫政策，以尽量减少这种高度传染病的传播。目前的研究目的是调查检疫对医学生心理健康和学习行为的影响。方法：在这项描述性研究中，我们使用了一个五分李克特规模的调查问卷来收集信息。调查问卷在625名医学院通过他们的电子邮件分发，回复率为530（84.8％），大多数294（55.47％）是女性。调查问卷由共20件组成; 12个项目与心理健康和压力盟友查询和08项有关学习行为。结果：该研究结果包括与检疫，心理健康和学习行为有关的两个重要特征。综合队列的234名医学生，女性或男性，（占总响应者的44.1％）表现出从家庭，朋友和同学，125/530（23.5％）医学生令人沮丧的感情的感觉。女性和男性医学院都表现出了整体工作表现的显着减少。此外，总学生的56.2％（占女性的61.5％和49.5％的男性）感觉到他们花了学习的时间下降。结论：女性和男性医学生都确定了检疫导致他们感到情绪从家庭，研究员和朋友们感兴趣地脱离，并降低了他们的整体工作绩效和学习期。调查结果还表明，在检疫期间，参加这项研究的医学生的四分之一的医学生令人沮丧。由于Covid-19流行病导致的长期检疫可能会导致这些医学生的心理和学习行为进一步恶化。 doi：https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.covid19-s4.2809如何引用这一点：Meo Sa，Abukhalaf Aa，Alomar Aa，Sattar K，Klonoff DC。 Covid-19大流行：检疫对医学生心理健康和学习行为的影响。 Pak J Med Sci。 2020; 36（Covid19-S4）：---------。 doi：https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.covid19-s4.2809这是一个开放式访问文章，根据Creative Commons归因许可证的条款（http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 3.0），其允许在任何媒体中不受限制地使用，分配和再现，只要正确引用原始工作。
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