In my thesis, I am reaserching the mental health of elementary school students during the covid 19 epidemic. Mental health is a topic that is becoming more and more relevant, and the current epidemic has also helped to raise awareness of its importance. In primary school, children go through a period of growing up, where they face many different challenges that they have to overcome. Over the past year, exceptional circumstances have arisen for all of them, which have required them to be extremely flexible, which not everyone has been able to satisfy. Due to increased demands and the loss of protective factors (school, contact with peers, ..), mental distress and problems increased, which was also reported by many NGOs and other experts. In the theoretical introduction to the thesis, I generally described mental health, the state of mental health of children before and during the epidemic, protective factors of children, problems of
primary school children during the epidemic and obstacles in seeking psychosocial help before and during the epidemic. In my quantitative research, I investigated the incidence of mental distress in primary school children before and during an epidemic, the frequency of seeking help, the media seeking help, satisfaction with the help received, and the reasons for not seeking help. The results showed that mental distress increased during the epidemic in a third of cases, that only a third of children and adolescents with problems sought help, and that they preferred to turn to friends or parents for help. In the end, I also linked the results of the research to theory.
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