About this article
We’ve put together this article to help you support and engage the mental health sector and people experiencing mental health problems, especially students. We will use Desktop Power bi to visualize the data and get insights from it. We will talk about Student Mental Health Issues (in 2020) and analyze their causes and consequences. Studying is likely to bring a number of changes to your life. It can be enjoyable and interesting, but it can also be challenging.
Objective
This article provides an introduction to the special issue of college student mental health. we will see that Students are at higher risk of developing mental health problems.
Source of the data
The Dataset was collected by a Google form survey from University students in the United States in 2020 to examine their current academic situation and mental health. The number of observations in this dataset is 100. The Data Source is Kaggle:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/shariful07/student-mental-health
Average age
The average age in my data observations is 20.53
The large proportion of students are under 25 and around three-quarters of adults with a mental illness have their first episode before turning 25.
Total of anxiety
As we can see, we have 34 students from 100 that have anxiety.
This is because becoming a student can be a stressful experience. Although stress isn’t a mental health problem, it can lead to mental health problems like depression and anxiety.
Panic attack by domain
First we can see how many Panic attacks we have in each domain. For example, in the BCS and engineering we have around 17 panic attacks but in laws and Islamic education the panic attacks are rare.
As a student, you might have left home for the first time, or just don’t have enough time to see your friends and family. Not having a good support network can make you vulnerable to developing Panic attacks.
Depression by age
Here we can see that young student have more depression than other ones. So for the student in age 18 we have 11 case of depression but this number decrease to become 1 in age 21 years.
Table of GPA by depression and anxiety
In this table we have the sum of depression and anxiety according to the GPA, with higher GPA we have higher cases of depression and anxiety. Which can be understood by the fact that students who are interested in their grades and scores are more likely to be exposed to these feelings of anxiety and depression unlike the neglected students who don’t show interest in their grades.
Anxiety by year and Marital status
We can see that in the first year we have more anxiety and this problem become less frequent in the second and third year. And in the fourth year we see that the anxiety is so rare. Also we can see here that the anxiety is affected by Marital status for example, in the first year we don’t have married students yet, but in the fourth year we can see that the probability to have anxiety is the same for married or single students.
Anxiety by gender
This donut chart shows us that the female is more likely to have anxiety than male.
Anxiety by domain
In this histogram, we see that the anxiety depends on the domain we study in the University. Like the panic attack, the student in engineering and BIT have more anxiety than the others in law and accounting for example.
Panic attack by GPA
Surprised we see that the students with high GPA can be more exposed to panic attacks than the students with low GPA. This shows us that persistent students are affected more than others.
Total of Panic attacks
In this survey we have 33 case out of 100 of panic attack.
This is a high rate so we need to look for a practical solution to this problem like building strong bonds and connecting to youth to protect their mental health.
Average of depression
Also the average of depression is 0.35
So more than a third of students suffer from depression.
The treatment
And the number of people who have treatment is only 2.
This shows us the importance of conducting awareness campaigns to urge students in need to get their treatment.
Depression by treatment
This is also shown by the pie chart so we have about 82 % of students are not receiving the treatment they need
Panic attack by current year of study
Here, too, we see the number of students in the first year with panic attack is so high 43. In the second and third year is approximately the same.
In the fourth year we have 8 students.
Here we conclude that younger students are more exposed to panic attacks than students who are in the last year.
Results & Conclusions
As conclusion, we can say that becoming a student can be a stressful experience. The anxiety depends on the domain we study in the University. In the BCS and engineering domains, we have more panic attacks than in laws and Islamic education. Also, with higher GPA we have a lot of cases of depression and anxiety.
In the first year we have more anxiety and this problem become less frequent in the second and third year. And in the fourth year we see that the anxiety is so rare. In addition to this, female is more likely to have anxiety than male.
Moreover, the students in engineering and BIT have more anxiety than the others in law and accounting. We conclude also that more than a third of students suffer from depression, and about 82 % of students are not receiving the treatment they need. In the end, we can say that younger students are more exposed to panic attacks than students who are in the last year.
In summary, adolescence is a time for young people to have a healthy start in life, but the number of students reporting poor mental health is increasing. Building strong bonds and connecting to youth can protect their mental health. Also, Schools and parents can create protective relationships with students and help them grow into healthy adulthood.
References
https://www.mind.org.uk/media/7593/mind-mental-and-physical-activity-toolkit-guide-1
https://www.bestcolleges.com/resources/top-5-mental-health-problems-facing-college-students/
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/shariful07/student-mental-health
Life in all its stages, be it as a student, a working professional, a spouse, a parent or an elderly person…,
is stressful !!!!
Interesting topic especially for us students.
Simple EDA, easy to undertand.