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Awareness Of Stress Among Children During Lockdown-A Survey
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AKIFA BEGUM, S.SANGEETHA, G.SRIDEVI
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Usually a lockdown occurs in a situation where the external conditions are threatful or dangerous. And due to this lockdown not only the children but even the adults have also been having a lot of problems. One of the main problems related to the lockdown is most specifically is the stress faced by the youth and the adults. And for the present situation due to the covid pandemic, the lockdown levels have become extremely high and many of the kids have gone into severe cases of depression as well. The aim of the present study is to analyse the level of stress among the children during the lockdown period. A descriptive cross sectional survey was done among 10-18 years children during the lockdown period. Self administered questionnaire of 15 questions was prepared and distributed among the children, through online google forms. The data was collected and analysed using SPSS software.The Pearson's Chi square test was also done. The results conveyed that 87.6% of the children are aware about the importance of maintaining and handling a good healthy diet and are having knowledge about their anxiety levels which are caused during this lockdown period. It is concluded that the majority of the participants are aware about the anxiety levels which are caused due to and during this lockdown period.
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stress; lockdown; children, healthy diet, depression
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP2.223
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