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Fruehwirth, J., Biswas, S., & Perreira, K. (n.d.). The Covid-19 pandemic and mental health of first-year college students: Examining the effect of Covid-19 STRESSORS using longitudinal data. Retrieved April 14, 2021, from https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0247999
This article goes into detail about the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic specifically on the mental health of first-year college students. This article was published in journals.plos.org. I found this article through searching “The effects of the covid-19 pandemic on first-year college students.” In this experiment, they tested 419 first-year students (ages 18-20) at a large public college in the state of North Carolina. They found that anxiety percentages increased from 18% to about 25.3% within the first four months of the pandemic’s start. Depression percentages increased from 21.5% to 31.7%. This article concludes by saying the mental health of college students could be helped by providing resources through virtual learning and reducing social isolation.