Madhur Mrinal¹ and PK Upadhyay²*

¹Ph.D. Candidate, School of Medical and Health Sciences, Bangor University, Wales, UK
²Head, Department of Neurosurgery, IHBAS Hospital, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

*Corresponding Author: PK Upadhyay, Head, Department of Neurosurgery, IHBAS Hospital, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.

Received: September 15, 2022; Published: October 12, 2022

Abstract

Paper deals with mental health of Children during lockdown where we are sharing our study-first author’s work, a voluntary organization working in Delhi, on the mental health issues of the school children and field work with school children on mental health narratives in pandemic. It finally concludes in discussion on the myths of our education system, digital divide in gender, DGs and EWS and camp model approach.

Keywords: Covid-19, Mental Health, School Children and Educational system

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Citation

Citation: Madhur Mrinal and PK Upadhyay. “An Epidemiological Study During Covid Pandemic for Mental Health in School Children and Associated Educational Myths”.Acta Scientific Medical Sciences 6.11 (2022): 12-18.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2022 Madhur Mrinal and PK Upadhyay. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.