Impact of Covid-19 on Students’ Mental Health and Confidence Levels

With the sudden advent of COVID-19, a virus epidemic that was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020, the world underwent a dramatic and rapid change. With COVID-19’s physical health hazards being given due consideration; the present research work serves as a platform to discuss its mental health implications on undergraduate and post graduate students in India, and the effect the situation is having on their confidence levels. A population-based cross-sectional study was carried out with the help of a questionnaire and the conclusions were drawn on the basis of the findings. The paper demonstrated how students’ confidence while attending offline classes after being locked down in their homes as a result of the pandemic, is affected by their awareness about the pandemic, anxiety within them caused as a result of the pandemic and their responses to online education.