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This study examines the binding mental health issues that are associated with COVID-19 and focus on the effect it has on college students. It included students' concerns for loved ones' health, difficulty with concentration, sleep patterns, social isolation, academic performance, eating, living environment, financial difficulties, depressive and suicidal thoughts. These researchers thought it was very important to evaluate this group of people because it is a large group that is vulnerable to mental illness prior to any global pandemic. The cause I am most interested in for my paper is the results specifying the mandated social isolation and distance and its effect on these college students. When completing his study the undergrad college researches trained in quantitative and qualitative methods did an interview survey guide of 195 students participants from Texas A&M assessing the status of students and their mental stability. This study was aware that “the prevalence o...

Citation: Holt-Lunstad, Julianne. "The Double Pandemic Of Social Isolation And COVID-19: Cross-Sector Policy Must Address Both | Health Affairs Blog". Healthaffairs.Org , 2021, https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200609.53823. https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200609.53823 Summary:  This article focuses on how social interactions are key to human health and survival. Also exemplifies the now known need for these social interactions and how it is going to be a heightened concern. When life starts to become normal again there is going to be a need for social and emotional support for those that have been deprived for so long. She also talks about how policies are going to have to take serious consideration of the impact of social isolation on individuals like mental health.  Author:  Julianne Holt-Lunstad Julianne Holt-Lunstad is a psychology professor at Bringham Young University. She was also the first U.S researcher to public an extensive work o...

This worldwide pandemic has been a struggle for everyone, college students especially. When going to college, there comes a social aspect that most students look forward to experiencing. This pandemic has ripped that experience out of many students' hands. In many ways this can be detrimental to a students mental health.How has the social isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic affected college students' mental health? In what ways can universities be more interactive even though everything is virtual? Copeland, W., McGinnis, E., Bai, Y., Adams, Z., Nardone, H., Devadanam, V., Rettew, J. and Hudziak, J., 2021. Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on College Student Mental Health and Wellness . [online] Science Direct. Available at: <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890856720319882> [Accessed 9 February 2021]. Copeland, W., McGinnis, E., Bai, Y., Adams, Z., Nardone, H., Devadanam, V., Rettew, J. and Hudziak, J., 2021. Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on College Student...

     My current blog topic is how isolation due to Covid-19 affects college students' mental health. I really like this topic but I also am very conflicted. The topics we have been going over for class and for the analytical essay are also really interesting and I feel like I can relate to them a lot more. I am still unsure as to which one I want to do because they are both so engaging. They both seem promising I think I need to do further research and come to a decision after that. As I continue researching multiple topics, I think I'm going to stick with my initial topic of mental health and Covid-19. As I was doing some looking around, I found a multitude of articles and papers discussing this topic. A few phrases and words I used to find these sources were “Covid-19 and mental health," and “Covid-19 and college students mental health." So far that is all I looked up but with those I found more than enough sources. Some things I found was that though the mitigation...