Factors Influencing Depression and Mental Distress Related to COVID-19 Among University Students in China: Online Cross-sectional Mediation Study

¹ Centre for Health Behaviours Research, Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong , HK

² School of Public Health, Dali University , Kunming , CN

³ Graduate School of Baotou Medical College, Baotou Medical College , Baotou , CN

⁴ Health Science Center, School of Public Health, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an , CN

⁵ Department of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health , Hefei , CN

⁶ School of Public Health, Sichuan University , Chengdu , CN

⁷ Department of Psychology, School of Education, Henan University, Kaifeng , CN

⁸ Shantou Medical College , Shantou , CN

⁹ Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou , CN

¹⁰ Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shenzhen University Health Science Center, Shenzhen , CN

¹¹ Department of Psychology, School of Psychiatry, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou , CN

¹² Department of Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou , CN

¹³ Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University , Beijing , CN

¹⁴ School of Public Health, Zhejiang University School of Medicine , Hangzhou , CN

¹⁵ School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine , Shanghai , CN

¹⁶ Public Health Department, Qinghai University Medical College , Xining , CN

¹⁷ Department of Social Medicine and Health Education, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing , CN

¹⁸ Department of Epidemiology of Health Statistics, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha , CN

*these authors contributed equally