IMPACT OF PANDEMIC ON MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS OF YOUTH

In times of fear, anxiety, worries and uncertainty, when there is threat to one's own survival, pandemic brought a lot of changes in our lives. During this pandemic we altered our daily routine, we do face various challenges like financial pressure, work pressure, social distancing and focus on preserving our life. One of the keys which will help us to survive through this latest pandemic is taking care of our mental health and wellness. The various health authorities across globe during pandemic recommends measures such as quarantine and social distancing which is indeed important to control the spread. The purpose of this research is to know the impact of pandemic on mental health and wellbeing of youth as we believe these are particularly worthy of attention and deserve consideration during pandemic. Our effort in this research is to identify the impact of this pandemic on mental and wellness of youth the sample taken for this study is 256 youth of Delhi NCR, will identify the relationship between mental and wellness of youth during pandemic .As in this hardships we have to cope with and adapt to challenging ,stressful and on-going life threating pandemic and having a good mental and wellness will provides us strength to face this potentially traumatic situation. The statistical tools applied for data analysis were correlation, regression and independent t-test.