Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered one of the biggest crises for human health distressing more than 200 countries worldwide. The petrifying effects of this pandemic have caused significant impact on mental health of public. Now, due to protracted pandemic time, the daily routine chores, social meetings and human interactions have been massively disturbed, resulting in increased stress levels amongst the youth in particular. In the present study, a survey-based analysis has been done to underline the main factors that are affecting the mental health of youth of Punjab state of India in this pandemic period and an attempt has been made to suggest the potential recommendations from the findings. The average perceived stress score (APSS) of the respondents has been calculated, and it has been found that the average APSS comes out to be 3.4851 which is really shocking. The statistical analysis from the paper suggests that some of the parameters like ‘feeling more sad or depressed now as compared to pre-pandemic period’ strongly influence APSS. Also, it has been found that three parameters viz; sleep disturbances, more anxiety and restlessness, frequent mood swings are strongly correlated with APSS of the respondent. The statistical analysis has been performed using the software Statistical Package for Social Sciences 25 (SPSS25).
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Sharda, R., Juneja, N., Kaur, H., Sharma, R.K. (2022). Impact on Mental Health of Youth in Punjab State of India Amid COVID-19—A Survey-Based Analysis. In: Roy, S., Sinwar, D., Perumal, T., Slowik, A., Tavares, J.M.R.S. (eds) Innovations in Computational Intelligence and Computer Vision . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1424. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0475-2_32
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