Mental health assessment of students of G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Uttarakhand

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2020-12
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G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand)
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The Young adulthood is a period of adjustments towards new patterns of life and new social The Young adulthood is a period of adjustments towards new patterns of life and new social expectations. This period is generally characterized as settling-down, reproductive problem and creative age, period of emotional tension, social isolation and dependency and time of commitments, value change, and adjustment to new lifestyles. These new adjustments of life cycle, make early adulthood a distinctive period in the life span and also a difficult one. Various studies have proven in this phase of changes and turmoil, the way young adult deal with or have been prepared to deal with; both positive and negative experiences can have a long-lasting effect. With changing roles and adoption of role and situations may leads to poor/good adjustments and poor/good mental health among young adults. Therefore, the proposed study aimed to assess the Mental Health Assessment of Students of G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Uttarakhand. A Total number of 240 sample were selected through simple random sampling method from three colleges of G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology. To achieve research objective, a Self-structured tool namely MHB-Mental Health Battery (Physiological Health, Daily Routine Activity, Emotional Status, Emotional Management and Intelligence) was developed and thereafter reliability and validity of the tool was calculated before its application. Due to Covid-19 pandemic situation, researcher collected the data through online mode. The MHB-Mental Health Battery was converted in Google forms the link of which was further sent to respondents through emails and what's app application. On receiving and clicking the link, the participants got auto directed to the information about the study and informed consent was taken before filling up the information of MHB-Mental Health Battery. The desired information was filled by selected respondents and was further utilized for coding and analysis. Suitable statistical methods i.e. frequency, percentage, p value and correlation were applied on collected data to derive the research results. After analysis and comparing the data, it was concluded that poor mental health was evident among young adults when overall mental health was assessed. As far as gender was concerned, status of poor mental health was higher among female respondents as compared to male. It was found that majority of young adults between the age of 22-25 years portrayed poor mental health as compared to young adults of age-range between 18-21 years. The percentage of poor mental health was higher among respondents of agriculture college respondents as compared to respondents belonging to college of college of technology and Home Science. The percentage of poor mental health was higher among respondents joint and single parent family as compared to respondents belonging to nuclear family. The percentage of poor mental health was higher among respondents who had either 0-1 or above 3 siblings as compared to respondents having 2 siblings. Young adults who have less educated parents demonstrated poor mental health as compared those having highly educated parents. Young adults who had farmer father demonstrated poor mental health as compared those with parents doing government and private jobs. The majority of young adults belonging to low income group demonstrated the poorest mental health compare to middle and high income group. Age, gender, education, type of family, no. of siblings, parental education and occupation and family income have its significant influence on mental health of young adults.
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