The lack of awareness about mental health by the

educational system during the pandemic situation

María Fran Pallarés (al414548@uji.es)

Laura Gil González (al418060@uji.es)
 Table of contents

Introduction 3
Theoretical background 4
Hypothesis and Goal 5
Relevant studies 6-7
Methodology 8
Conclusion and suggestions 9
 Introduction
Nowadays, mental health is very important.
We must stop treating mental illness as a taboo subject
We must stop using expressions like "I am autistic"

SCHOOLS Physical health is very important.

Mental health is not that important

 Theoretical background
KEY CONCEPTS
Pandemic situation Disorders
Psychological and
social effects
Students did not provide
the support that the
students needed.
The education system Variables
Academic performance
Lack of support to cope with disorders
Lack of knowledge or interest in
mental health.
The independent variable would be
mental disorders
 HYPOTHESIS GOAL
➔ Investigate what are the consequences
we face for neglecting the importance of
➔ The disorders that a person has directly mental health in education.
affect their academic performance
➔ the educational system does not give it
importance but rather makes them
invisible.
 Two studies

The doctor in psychology and health sciences, Javier Urra José Antonio Luengo there has been a big change
published a study in his guide Primeros auxilios in routine after the pandemic.

emocionales para niños y adolescente

exhaustion pandemic fatigue
20% of children and adolescents mental disorder
68% of people with depression they do not receive All this is a consequence of not knowing if we will
help return to the normality that we knew.
Christopher Clouder in his last conference
Reino Unido 1/10 mental disorder before
they had 21 years
Since 3 years ago hospital admissions due to self-harm
or eating disorders have increased
The studies that we will show next show worrying data director general of the OMS

Our research is focused on giving

visibility to the disorders that students
may suffer, disorders such as anxiety,
TCA depression, dissocial disorders,
substance dependence... among others,
and in turn how these are affected by
the barriers that are found daily in their help society, above all, to become
school environment.
.
Stresses that mental health services do not
meet their commitments despite the
growing and evident activity of this
extreme situation
We believe that this research could
aware of the importance of mental
health. In addition to the fact that for
the scientific community, the fact that
more and more mental health projects
are being carried out, helps them to be
given visibility.
 Methodology

Participants Instruments
Qualitative
●Adolescents Nominal scale
- Mental disorders (IV)
●16-18 years old
Quantitative
●Province of Valencia - Academic performance(DV1) Interval scale
●50 young people per school Quantitative
- Lack of coping Scale of reason
support (DV2)
Quantitative
- Lack of knowledge of or Scale of reason
interest in mental health (VD3)
 Conclusion and suggestions
- Pandemic situation has affected
students
- They have not received the help
they need to cope with these
problems.
- Disorders and the help for them are
not made visible.
- They could put more
psychologists in schools
- Could you talk more about
these problems and explain
that they are very common
 References
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577684/full
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.620718/full
The lack of awareness about mental health by the
educational system during the pandemic situation

María Fran Pallarés (al414548@uji.es)

Laura Gil González (al418060@uji.es)