Authors

The effects on mental health on our education,

Group 611

Associates
physical health and society University TecMilenio Campus
Culiacan
This academic research presents an examination on how mental health affects our education, focusing on finding the reasons or explanation on
how mental health is affecting our education, the energy level of concentration, the mental ability, dependability, optimism and lastly, what is the
reason behind lower results. Additionally, we'll also surveyed how physical health altered students, and how our society handles mental health
issues. Mental and physical health are both equally important for our overall health, in fact, depression increases the chances for many physical
health problems, like long-lasting conditions like diabetes, heart disease and stroke. And just as mental problems disturb our physical status,
chronic conditions can also increase the risk for mental illness.

Mental health problems start as an individual matter, then grow to be interpersonal, institutional, then it becomes related to our
Introduction community, and finally, our society. The most common mental health problems that students have identified to affect their
academic development are stress (30%), anxiety (22%), sleep difficulties (20%) and depression (14%). Suicidal thought have
harmful effects on larger campus or school community, where roommated, faculty and staff may also experience profound grief
over students’ suicidal behavior. Globally, mental and substance use disorders are very common: around 1-in-7 people (15%) have
one or more mental or substance use disorders. The most common disorders are anxiety disorders (3.94%), depression (3.59%),
bipolar disorder (0.51%), schizophrenia (0.3%) and eating disorders (0.18%) We need to take into consideration that in the first year
of the COVID-10 pandemic, the percentage of global prevalence for anxiety and depression increased by 25%, according to a
scientific brief released by the World Health Organization. The causes for the massive increase are bereavement, isolation, loss
of income and fear. All of these combined have triggered people amongst our society, making a noticeable difference in how we
used to handle mental health diseases. Mental health problems have always been in the picture, the difference is that now, we
are starting to give it visibility and bringing awareness to people on how important it is, and even though is still a work in process,
it seems like now, thanks to how easy is to get information, we can educate ourselves on this topic.

Objectives ● Understand how it affects us
● Find treatments and solutions
● To know the importance of a good mental health status
● Inform population
● Deliver data to the community
The main method is a survey made with Google Forms,
Methodology in which we created a series of 10 questions based on
our investigation and the data we needed to collect.
We established a public according to the answers we
expected to get, and sent the survey to 50 students in
an age range from 14 years old onwards. Our surveyed
had the freedom to respond anonymously and could
respond based on their own knowledge and life
experiences. We used quantitative methods by
assigning numerical values to Likert-type scales, which
made results easier to analyze.
Results From the previous questions, we could notice how the majority
thinks that it is a taboo subject and it is not talked about enough,
which means most people are not educated on how important
mental health is and the effects of it on our daily lives. From
multiple answers on why they think that, the most repeated one
is that it's not something we talk about with our family or friends,
we, as a society, do not give the topic the importance it needs,
this happens because of many reasons, which could be fear to
be judged, lack of knowledge on the subject, feeling guilty as we
might worry our beloved ones, and thinking mental health is not
as important as physical health, so we don’t need to check on it.
Mental health problems have always been in the picture, the
difference is that now, we are starting to give it visibility and
bringing awareness to people on how important it is, and even
though is still a work in process, it seems like now, thanks to
how easy is to get information, we can educate ourselves on this
topic. We confirmed the hypothesis that mental health does
affect our education, physical health and society. It works
differently for every variable, but at the end, it has an effect on it.

From what we can observe, as some of the questions were open, people could explain their opinion and
Analysis thoughts about the topic and question, which helped us to make our investigation richer in information and data.

14-16 19-20
How old are you?
17-18 +21

Femenine
What is your gender?
Masculine

High School
Level of studies
University

Yes
Mental health affects education?
No

Yes
Poor mental health leads to poor physical health?
No

Yes
Academic performance has been affected by mental health?
No

Si
Your mental health is affected due to missinformation?
No

Yes Maybe
Mental health is a taboo subject?
No

0 25 50 75 100

Conclusion
While making this article, we came to the conclusion that both
mental health and physical health are very important to the
development of a students education, since both mental health
and physical health affect our levels of concentration, our levels
of stress, our levels of energy, etcetera. Mental health problems
can have a negative impact on our energy level, concentration,
mental ability to resolve problems, and optimism. All of these
variables will cause a lower performance than average. As we
showed in this article, research shows that depression is also
highly associated with lower grade point averages, and that can
also increase anxiety at the same time which will also be
hindering our performance.
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