A STUDY TO FIND OUT THE EFFECT OF CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC ON THE MENTAL HEALTH OF B.ED STUDENTS

It seems just like yesterday, we were all reading, browsing about the first outbreak of COVID-19 at the city Wuhan, China in the month of Dec, 2019. Within a span of three months the virus has engulfed major portions of the earth. India too is facing a lot of crisis due to the outbreak in the country specially Maharashtra and Kerala. Our honorable Prime Minister has declared a complete lockdown from 24th March, 2020 till 14th April, 2020. And we are not sure after this too whether the situation will be in control or will the lockdown will be continued.
There is lot of anxiety, depression, uncertainty, sadness expressed by people in social media and other platforms. The researcher being a teacher educator felt the need to find out what is the mental health of B.Ed students during this process.
The data was collected in-between 29th -31st March, 2020 from 173 B.Ed students, wherein we all were in lockdown status at home.
The results were found out that many of them are suffering with ill mental health and a zoom session was taken to share the findings and counsel them accordingly.