PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF COVID -19 ON UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Monika .
2020
International Journal of Engineering Applied Sciences and Technology
The main objective of this article is to analyze the impact of COVID -19 on university students. Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID -19) is more highly infectious disease with a long establishment period which is caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus. Universities or colleges campuses are the places where students live and study in proximity or closeness to each other. Higher educational institutions have the potential to become explosive or outbreak centers due to high levels
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... f close social contact. The new corona virus can be transmitted from person to person. There is more chance to spread corona virus and most of the universities and college students or young adults are more infected from this infectious disease. The affected patients increased due to traveling of people during the festival season or social gathering in malls, cinemas, bus stand, railway station and airport. The uncertainty and low predictability of corona virus endanger people's physical health but also affects the people's mental health such as emotions and cognition. Most of the people are likely to develop negative emotion for self protection and avoid the contact with the people away from pathogens it means to disease. Negative emotions reduced immune function of human being and destroy the balance of their normal psychological conditions. Psychologists assign timely services to affected populations. It is necessary to understand the psychological changes caused by corona virus in timely manners because psychological changes by public health can be reflected directly emotional and cognition. Corona virus not only effects mental health it also affects on respiratory system. It may promotes references for policy makers to make executive plan such as social workers, monitoring positive as well as negative emotions and cognitive indicators like social risk for fighting from corona virus. Reported negative psychological effects including posttraumatic stress symptoms, confusion, and anger. Stressors included longer quarantine duration, infection fears, frustration, boredom, inadequate supplies, inadequate information, financial loss, and stigma. Quarantine is one of several public health measures to prevent the spread of an infectious disease.
doi:10.33564/ijeast.2020.v05i05.051
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