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- Title
Perceived Stress Among School Students Caused by Virtual Classrooms Amid Covid-19 Pandemic.
- Authors
Kaur, Gurmeet; Shan, Retash; Raj, Dev
- Abstract
Background COVID-19 pandemic has been a unique global experience in the history of pandemics - impacting every individual's mental health and well being. School students were, however, affected the most with the sudden transition from real physical class-rooms to 'virtual-classrooms' which entailed along with it new challenges of technical learning, network failures, chaotic time-schedules and prolonged screen-time. Purpose The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of perceived stress by the school students (senior secondary and secondary class students). Materials and Methods This was a cross-sectional study in which the level of perceived stress was measured in 277 school students with the help of an online questionnaire "The Perceived Stress Scale-10", a globally used, validated and reliable stress assessment tool. Results 58.12% showed moderate level of perceived stress whereas 35.38% showed high and 6.50% low stress respectively. No statistically significant association was found between perceived stress and age, gender and education level. Conclusion The present study suggests that online mode of learning does put school students under stress, a fact which the education policy makers should keep in mind and accordingly take measures to alleviate the same.
- Subjects
COVID-19 pandemic; VIRTUAL classrooms; WELL-being; PHYSICAL education teachers; ONLINE education; EDUCATION policy
- Publication
JK Practitioner, 2022, Vol 27, Issue 4, p84
- ISSN
0971-8834
- Publication type
Article