Students fight with health problems - alarming conditions!

Students fight with health problems - alarming conditions!

Österreich - The health of students has drastically deteriorated since corona apandemia. According to the latest study on student social survey, 21 percent of those surveyed now state that health impairments make their studies difficult. Compared to previous surveys, where it was only 12 percent, this is an alarming increase. The proportion of students with mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety disorders has doubled to almost 9 percent. This means that psychological problems are the most frequently mentioned impairments, as is the result of the survey, which is based on around 43,000 students, reports .

In addition, 5 percent of students have chronic-Somatic impairments, which include chronic pain or post-covid syndrome, for example. Respiratory diseases and allergies concern 1 percent of those surveyed. Further impairments, such as mobility restrictions or difficulties in seeing, hearing or speaking, are rather rare and each book with less than 1 percent. These developments are alarming, since they also match similar results of a survey in Germany, where the proportion of threatening impairments increased from 11 to 16 percent between 2016 and 2021, such as

However, many students do not seem to know what support they are entitled to. Although consulting and service points have been set up at numerous universities, the level of awareness of these offers remains low. Only 28 percent of the students are aware of the existing support, which represents an improvement compared to the 19 percent from the prior collection of 2019, but still indicates a significant lack of information.