God health problems. About 5% of graduate students said they did not adapt well to remote guidance. Among these students, the anxiety detection rate rushed to more than 60%.
Mounica Kota is a PhD student in Behavioral Ecology at the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities Campus. She participated in the 2019 and 2020 surveys. She said that from last year to this year’s survey, her mental health score has taken a sharp turn, partly because the epidemic has hit her focus and motivation. “It’s hard for you to feel that any of your work is meaningful.” She said, “When so many terrible things happen one after another, what is the point of publishing a paper in a seemingly narrow field?”
Kota will graduate soon, but she plans to use the fall semester to work in community organizations in the Minnesota-St. Paul area. She said: “I plan to figure out what I want to do after that.”
anxiety pandemic
It is understandable that students in 2020 are particularly worried about their own situation, said Sarah Lipson, a public health researcher at Boston University. Lipson is also the co-principal researcher of the “Healthy Minds Study” (Healthy Minds Study), which was initiated by the University of Michigan in 2007 for undergraduates And the annual survey of graduate students. She said: “The epidemic has exposed a lot of uncertainty, and this is the crux of anxiety.” Similarly, student groups in the COVID-19 era may find it difficult for them to think about the future, which is also a sign of depression. . She said that there is a sense of despair among young people.
In July, the Healthy Brain Network announced the latest research results. The study surveyed nearly 19,000 American undergraduates and graduate students from the end of March to May, using the more comprehensive Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale-7 and Patient Health Questionnaire-9. The survey found that depression symptoms have increased compared with the fall of 2019, but the anxiety detection rate has remained unchanged. Concerns about the epidemic are very common: 86% of students reported that in the past 2 weeks, they were somewhat worried or very worried about their personal safety. To make matters worse, 60% of people said the epidemic has made it harder to seek mental health help.
Lipson pointed out that the composition of colleges and universities for healthy brain survey subjects is different from semester to semester. Chirikov said that the SERU survey only included research universities, and the demographic characteristics of the sample were in 2019 and 2020.