Vol. 11, Issue 11 (2022)

Author(s):
Priyanka Pandey and Neelma Kunwar

Abstract:
In India, around 250 million students were affected due to college closures at the onset of lockdown induced by COVID-19. The pandemic posed several challenges in public and private colleges which included an expected rise in dropouts, learning losses, and increase in digital divide. Sudden shift to online learning without planning in India, where the infrastructure for it was not ready and the curriculum not designed for such format, had posed a risk of many students becoming passive learners due to low attention span. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic may include exacerbation and/or worsening of mental health challenges among many students with pre-existing psychiatric conditions, and potential new onset of mental health challenges, particularly, anxiety and stress-related disorders among the students, For some children or adolescents with pandemic psychiatric conditions, the lockdown may have led to a shift or even disruption in care. Students with chronic psychiatric and neuro developmental conditions, psychotic disorders, intellectual disability, especially those who had been receiving a significant proportion of their mental healthcare and services in-person during pandemic times, may be affected to all students will go on to develop adverse mental health outcomes Strengthening and supporting resilience promoting factors can be a vital step in reducing the adverse mental health impact of the pandemic among students The study was conducted in three government university students of Kanpur district.