Mental disorders in Chemistry and Biological Sciences college students in during graduation

• Autor(a) principal: da Silva Santos, Vanilson
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: da Silva Santos, Thaíse, Atalvanio da Silva, José
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Diversitas Journal
• Texto Completo: https://diversitasjournal.com.br/diversitas_journal/article/view/1955
• topic: sofrimento psíquico; universitários; licenciatura.

The University allows at the college student a great personal and intellectual development, however, it can also be marked as an environment that triggers psychological disorders. Therefore, the aim of this research was to highlight aspects related to mental disorders in Chemistry and Biological Sciences college students at the Universidade Estadual de Alagoas – Campus I, in the Arapiraca city, Alagoas. For data collection, a questionnaire was carried out on the Google Forms platform, made available to the target audience through WhatsApp. The research had the participation of 48 students, and the collected data were tabulated in Excel spreadsheets. We supposed that the number of answered questionnaires may be indicative of mental exhaustion among undergraduates due to remote activities imposed by the covid-19 pandemic. Thus, we have an analysis of the data obtained, but with the objective of carrying out another survey to complement the information. We noticed that 50% of the participants claimed to have been diagnosed with some psychological distress; it was found that 85% of these students believe that the university has been contributed to the aggravation of these symptoms, and 78.9% reported that crises become more evident during periods of exams and/or presentations of work. We consider, with the data obtained, that undergraduates are not immune to mental illness and that the HEI needs to develop actions that help in the psycho-emotional well-being of these students, since, as future teachers, they will be social agents of transformation.