Os efeitos do isolamento social na saúde mental dos alunos de logística da UFNT:

Abstract

Admission to higher education starts a new stage in the individual's life, marked by major changes that significantly impact their emotional life, so that, even in common situations, the university environment has the potential to negatively affect the student's emotions. Due to the occurrence of the pandemic due to Covid – 19, the educational scenario has radically changed the dynamics of in-person classes through the adoption of remote teaching. As a result of the sudden change, the uncertainties, instabilities and losses caused by the pandemic, researches indicated serious impacts on the emotional lives of undergraduate students. Thus, the present study aimed to perform a brief diagnosis of the effects of remote learning on the mental health of logistics technology students at a university in the north of the state of Tocantins. For that, qualitative-quantitative research was carried out through the application of a semi-structured questionnaire aimed at the students of that course. It was noted that adaptation to remote learning caused in most respondents, a feeling of exhaustion, feelings of anguish, incapacity and dissatisfaction with the university's performance, such depressive symptoms are in turn linked to self-employment rates in higher education, which was also observed in relation to the majority of respondents. About 47.6% of respondents felt like giving up or locking the course they are enrolled in. Through the results, it was noticed the need for further studies aiming to investigate with greater breadth and depth the relationship of social isolation and remote learning with the emergence of depressive tendencies in undergraduate students in the pandemic period.