COVID's ongoing toll on university students’ mental health – new findings

By Maria Loades, Senior Lecturer, Clinical Psychology, University of Bath

Even before the pandemic, university students were at high risk of developing mental health problems. Transitioning to adulthood is already a period of heightened vulnerability, and for students, this can be combined with added stressors such as living away from home, financial hardship and changing social relationships.

The COVID pandemic enforced massive and rapid changes in the way we lived our lives. For university students, campuses closed down, courses shifted online, exams were cancelled, part-time jobs in…

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