Majority of Canadian Post-Secondary Students Say Their Mental Health Still ‘Negatively Impacted’ By Pandemic: Study
Most Canadian students are still feeling the negative mental health effects of dealing with the pandemic, according to a new study.
The study, titled, “The New Abnormal: Student Mental Health Two Years Into COVID-19″ [pdf] was jointly produced by the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA), Abacus Data, and the Mental Health Commission of Canada.
Among the findings, the majority of Canadian students said that their mental health “has been negatively impacted” by the pandemic. Three out of four students reported that the pandemic had negatively impacted their mental health for the third year in a row, 74 percent said that the pandemic has worsened their mental health challenges, and 61 percent said it created “new mental health struggles.”…