Life Status of Iraqi Students Studying in Iran during Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic.

Background: COVID-19 has spread to most countries in the world. The impact of the disease is different from country to country. Students have contact and interaction with different people in that country, so they may have a risk of being infected with coronavirus through direct contact or daily activities.Aim: The present study aimed to determine effect of coronavirus on life status among Iraqi students who returned from Iran at the time of the announcement of the spread of COVID-19.Methodology: Quantitative design, a descriptive study was conducted among (61) Iraqi students studying in Iran at the time of the announcement of the spread of COVID-19. An online survey was conducted and used a form to collect the data; the form was created by researchers and used Google Forms as the platform. The data was collected at the time of quarantined students from period February 15, 2020, to March 8, 2020. In terms of the statistical aspect, the data was then analyzed by (SPSS Version 21).Results: The highest percentage of age was between (20-30) years old, and the mean ages were (25.25.7), (51%) were male (82%) were married, (64%) had Bachelors degree. More than one-third (34.4%) of participants had contact with Iranian people, (73.8%) used PPE (personal protective equipment), (98.4%) were immunized BCG during neonates, (96.7%) were free from chronic diseases, more than one-third (37.7%) of participants were no fear or stress during the outbreak, and (45.9%) of participants were partly stressed or had some sort of fear, (91.8%) of participants tested negative for coronavirus, (90.2%) of participants didnt have any signs or symptoms of COVID-19 at quarantine. There was no significant association found between signs and symptoms with testing results (P-Value = 0.415).Conclusions and recommendations: the study finding concluded that near to all of them confirmed as healthy and not infected with COVID-19. The majority of them have been vaccinated with BCG; it may be related to the global BCG vaccination might have led to a reduction severity of the COVID-19 disease. Given the complicated nature of the virus, we believe that students studying in Iran are still at risk of contracting the disease, so we recommend they continue the remainder of their study program from home, using already popular online platforms, which are used widely used by Iranian and other international universities.