06/05/2021
This Zoom News for Pandemic Blues (ZNPB) did interviews with three students from France and China, and a psychologist from Le Havre, to gauge the situation of mental health during the pandemic.
According to a study by the Observatoire National de la Vie Etudiante, almost a third of students showed signs of psychological distress following the first lockdown in April 2020. But no data has been published on the mental health of students following the second lockdown introduced by the French government in November 2020. This highlights the difficulty of quantifying the intertwined feelings of students.
Back to school, curfew and then reconfinement...the year 2020 has clearly not spared young people, whose psychological health has deteriorated deeply.
Students, deprived of classes but also of social relations, have seen the consequences of the epidemic added to the worries inherent to this age group: what will their future be made of? In what world will they live? Many doctors are worried about their morale, the effect on their health and the exacerbation of their psychological problems. "Students are one of the populations that have been very affected by the first confinement and they are affected again by the second. They often live alone, in small areas, are deprived of friendships and are sometimes in a very precarious situation." says Nicolas Franck, apsychiatrist at the Le Vinatier centre in Lyon, and author of "Covid-19 et détresse psychologique - 2020, l'odyssée du confinement."
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