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Mental Wellbeing of High School Children During COVID-19 Pandemic
Abstract
Introduction: Students, teachers, and parents have all faced numerous difficulties as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are now learning about the broad effects on pupils as a result of schools being shuttered, physically isolating restrictions, and other unanticipated changes to their life. Children who already manage mental health disorders have been particularly vulnerable to the adjustments. 188 nations have closed all of their schools, according to UNESCO. One billion young people around the world, or more than 90% of registered students, are no longer in school.The current educational disruption is unprecedented in its global scope and speed, according to UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay. Objective: To assess the mental wellbeing of high school children during COVID-19. Methods: The study was conducted in Belagavi by two data collectors and selected high school. The questionnaire was checked for completeness, cleaned manually and entered in to Epi-Data version 4.2. Then the data was transferred into SPSS version 21.0 for further analysis. Descriptive statistics were carried out. Finally, checked association between dependent and independent variables. Result: showed that majority of high school students (56.6%) had average knowledge regarding mental wellbeing, 26.6% had poor knowledge regarding mental wellbeing and 6.7% were having good mental wellbeing during COVID-19 pandemic. Father’s education and mother’s education status was significant with p value less than 0.05 level of significance. Conclusion: In general, mental wellbeing is average, necessitating the intervention of various responsible bodies; and providing proper psychological support to the high school children and awareness about mental wellbeing.
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