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Exploring the relationship between mental health-related problems and undergraduate student dropout: A case study within a civil engineering program.
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- Stress-related experiences and intentions to quit studies among female married postgraduate distance education students in Ghana.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Mental distress, food insecurity and university student dropout during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020: evidence from South Africa.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Mental health characteristics of re-entering dropout Indian students.Bioinformation · 2024Article
- Study Conditions and University Students' Mental Health during the Pandemic: Results of the COVID-19 German Student Well-Being Study (C19 GSWS).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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- Practicing COVID-19 Public Health Measures Is Associated With Anxiety and Depression in Undergraduate University Students.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Dropout has always been a concerning issue within higher education. This research explores the relationship between mental health-related problems and undergraduate students' dropout rates amid the COVID-19 pandemic and within a civil engineering program. The study is quantitative descriptive, with a non-experimental and longitudinal design. Results show that the dropout rates of civil engineering students from a private university have increased, comparing before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily due to mental health-related problems. Three strong tendencies within these rates have been detected, directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was concluded that undergraduate students' mental health had been undermined due to the pandemics, which has had an immediate impact on the increase of dropout rates.
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