A qualitative study on the educational and psychosocial challenges of social work students and the coping strategies during the COVID 19 pandemic

ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 “Corona” virus which spread across the entire world infected 228 Countries and Territories around the world and a total of 608,334,993 confirmed cases of the coronavirus COVID-19 that originated from Wuhan, China, and a death toll of 6,496,836 deaths. In the United States, it affected more than 9.4 million people. This has changed the entire lifestyle of the people and schools and colleges were shut down from 16th March 2020 onwards. This article focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on social work education, and the psychological and sociological aspects of the community in Louisiana. Data was collected using an online a 15 -item questionnaire that was emailed to all the students studying at the Louisiana Christian University, Louisiana State. Findings revealed that there is a need for advanced preparedness plans and resources to face sudden epidemics.

KEYWORDS:

• Coronavirus
• psychosocial issues
• challenges
• coping strategies
• social work education

Acknowledgments

Thanks to all the participants.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Ethical standard

All procedures performed involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All ethical protocol observed while collecting the data.

Informed consent

Before collecting data, the participant read the consent form and signed. “Additional informed consent was obtained from all individual participants for whom identifying information was included in this article.