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      The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the mental health of students and teaching staff

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      Heliyon
      Published by Elsevier Ltd.
      Mental health, Covid-19, Higher education

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          In the past decade, mental health is embedded in the concept of health and teachers’ mental health has become the focus of surveys. In this study we examined the mental health of special educator-students compared to their lecturers and inspectors at the University Semmelweis Pető András Faculty.

          We used the validated Hungarian language Mental Health Test (MHT) to assess the mental health. The MHT is linked to the concept of physical and mental wellbeing, it is ability-based approach, and examines 5 areas: wellbeing, savoring, creative-executive efficiency self-regulation resilience.

          Altogether 237 questionnaires had been returned that were suitable for evaluation (19 lecturers, 16 instructors and 202 students).

          Students’ mean values are lower than the instructors’ and lecturers’ mean values, and students presented significant lower scores in three scales: self-regulation, creative-executive efficiency, and resilience subscales. In the wellbeing scale we found significant correlation with the existence of the separate room to learn/work during the home-office.

          These results point to the need for the university to pay attention to the mental health of students, who will be able to consciously monitor their mental health, and who are able to provide effective support to their students.

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                Journal
                Heliyon
                Heliyon
                Heliyon
                Published by Elsevier Ltd.
                2405-8440
                28 March 2022
                28 March 2022
                : e09185
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Semmelweis University Pető András Faculty, Budapest, Hungary
                [2 ]Doctoral School of Education, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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                []Corresponding author.
                Article
                S2405-8440(22)00473-X e09185
                10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09185
                8958264
                c6e7955b-e61e-487b-a050-1b08cc345e87
                © 2022 Published by Elsevier Ltd.

                Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

                History
                : 12 December 2021
                : 3 February 2022
                : 21 March 2022
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                mental health,covid-19,higher education
                mental health, covid-19, higher education

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