Quarantine and Chill – How COVID-19 impacts the Mental Health and Wellbeing of LWTech Students
Andesha Birch
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Summary
Amidst the pandemic, numerous health-related perplexities emerged. One of the lesser discussed perplexities includes trends among different age groups. For college students, these perplexities mostly consist of their inability to meet expectations in academic pursuits, and the ensuing social and emotional challenges. At LWTech, it has yet to be determined the enormity of COVID-19 on the overall wellbeing and mental health of students. The current study seeks to discover whether LWTech students experienced an increase in mental health challenges due to the impacts of COVID-19. The study will employ the “Healthy Minds Study” which is an annual study conducted via online survey of randomly selected samples of LWTech students. The current study will compare the results from the 2016-17 survey to the recent 2020 survey results. The comparison of the mental health conditions of LWTech students before and after the pandemic will provide insight on the impacts of the pandemic on the mental health conditions of the students. The data from the Health Mind Study will be compared to a similar study conducted by the University of Vermont (Copeland et al., 2021) to highlight the possible impacts of COVID-19 on college students and to suggest areas in which measures can be implemented to reduce COVID’s negative impact.
