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Covid-19, Social Isolation, And Msw Students’ Mental Health, Cassandra Barajas May 2024

Covid-19, Social Isolation, And Msw Students’ Mental Health, Cassandra Barajas

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New literature has found that the COVID-19 pandemic has grown the prevalence of anxiety and depression amongst college students (University Communications, 2021). The purpose of this research study was to further explore how the sudden restrictions and isolation protocols enforced and caused by the COVID-19 pandemic affected the mental health symptoms amongst MSW students. The study sample consisted of social work students who were 18 years old or older and who were enrolled in a Master of Social Work Program at some point in time during the COVID-19 pandemic period.

This study was conducted using a post-positivism approach and by …