Contemplating distress factors among college students
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COVID-19, mental health, physical health, stress factors, students distressAbstract
Physical wellness of students deteriorating after the covid-19 and their learning remotely is a new normal today. Today students are striving through learning online, submitting assignments, studying in isolation, competing with handset, computation system gives them immense pressure reflecting on their mental and physical health. Anxiety and stress leads to low immune system and further illness. The students’ feelings strain on their eyes, head, brain, heart and digestive system to workload pressure, exam pressure, technical knowhow pressure and peer pressure. They symptoms neither noticed nor addressed and therefore more prone to get ill if it persist for a long time. The responsibility lies on every stakeholder from the community to address unobserved anonymity to prevent the permanent damage to the society. This paper address the factors caused distress the students and measures should be taken for improving the mental and physical wellness of the students.
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