Research Paper
Year: 2021 | Month: December | Volume: 8 | Issue: 12 | Pages: 374-377
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20211245
Anxiety of High School Students Preparing for University during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Prapattra Hongwisata, Thanawat Wuthikanokkana, Nathakan Preechakansakula, Nanont Kaewpichita
aSarasas Witaed Saimai School, Bangkok, 10220, Thailand
Corresponding Author: Thanawat Wuthikanokkan
ABSTRACT
Covid-19 are one of the viruses that were widely spreaded in 2019 and are still separate until nowadays. Thailand is one of the countries that are highly infected. The majority of people who are infected with this virus tend to have mild to severe respiratory symptoms. Furthermore, anyone can get sick, and it can lead to death. However, the most common symptoms of this virus are fever, cough, tiredness, and loss of taste or smell, on the other hand, characteristics in a minority of people, such as diarrhea and headaches. Due to the impact of the Covid-19 virus, people have to change their lifestyle to the online form. These changes have impacted mostly on economics and education in particular countries, so this problem also affects anxiety among high school students; who must prepare to apply to the university during the COVID-19 outbreak. In addition, we have collected 151 answers from high school students by surveying in order to know the feelings for entrance to the university during the pandemic situation. We found out that 81.3% of the students are highly affected by covid, and only 0.7% of students are slightly affected. We also found out that 55% of the students are worried about university entrance, and only 2.6% of the students were not worried at all. According to the result, most of the students in Thailand are facing the problem about their education and their entrance for the university which are caused by Covid-19. This may lead to illnesses like depression and anxiety.
Keywords: Students, Learning, COVID-19, Thailand, University.
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