Saúde mental e o desempenho de estudantes universitários

Abstract

This article aims to investigate and highlight the stressful aspects and impacts on the mental health and performance of university students before and during the pandemic. Stressors influence the emergence or worsening of stress, anxiety, depression, burnout syndrome and risk of suicidal thoughts or behaviors among university students. It also affects your cognitive performance. Some factors that affect university students before the pandemic are: issues of adaptation, economics, studies, workload, excessive workload, double shifts, sacrifice of leisure time, sleep, physical activities, among others. Other aspects that emerged during the pandemic were: fear, uncertainty, having to adapt to a new model in a short period of time, difficulty accessing or handling new tools, increased anxiety and stress, as well as changes of mood, changes in sleep and among others. Therefore, this research will focus on investigating studies related to the mental health of university students before and during COVID-19 and its impacts, seeking to discuss and identify the implications and effects associated with academic performance, as well as understanding how these elements influence cognitive functions more specifically in attention and memory, which are responsible for the acquisition and consolidation of new knowledge, thus relating to the academic performance of the student.