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February 14, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Exploring Mental Health Challenges Among Students from India During the Covid-19 Crisis

MDMansoon DhamaESEshan Sengupta

Key Points

  • To explore how the COVID-19 lockdown affected the mental health of students in India.
  • Collected data from various educational institutions
  • Compared mental health before and during the lockdown
  • Focused on depression symptoms and psychological assessments
  • Students experienced worse depression symptoms during lockdown compared to six months prior
  • Those without previous psychological assessments were most affected
  • Post-lockdown, mental health conditions reverted quickly to pre-lockdown levels

Abstract

The coronavirus pandemic's lockdown may have aggravated psychological problems. The extent to which social isolation might impair mental health is largely unknown. During the COVID-19 lockdown in India and after the lockdown was lifted, we gathered speculative data regarding students' mental wellbeing. We collected numerous data from students studying in different institutions to determine their mental health condition in the time of lockdown compared to before lockdown. Those exhibited worse depressed symptoms during lockdown than they had six months prior, with students without a psychological assessment being the most impacted. Students are not likely to have a therapeutically notable exacerbation of episodes, although roughly a percentage of our target population may acquire more severe depression symptoms. This work backs up the idea that lockdown might exacerbate depressive symptoms, but it also shows that when the lockdown was lifted, any alterations swiftly dissipated, and the psychological status was discovered to be dissimilar to how it had been recorded prior to closure.

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Dhama et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/699011932ccff479cfe58617https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18617139
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