TY - GEN
T1 - Impact of COVID-19 Among College Students Academic, Financial, and Physical Matters
T2 - 9th International Conference on Information System Design and Intelligent Applications, ISDIA 2025
AU - Panicker, Rani Oomman
AU - Isaac, Jikcey
AU - Navas, Sana S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2026.
PY - 2026
Y1 - 2026
N2 - Closure of schools and colleges due to the COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant disruption to the educational systems worldwide. According to the UNESCO report, COVID-19 affected about 800 million students worldwide. This paper aims to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among college students in Kerala, one of the states in India. Through this quantitative study, we investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education matters, physical health, and financial matters for Kerala college students. For that, we sent an online questionnaire form via WhatsApp to college students, and 406 of them filled out the questionnaire. We analyzed the results with SPSS and Excel. Through this study, we concluded that, 62.31% of students have lost their concentration in studies (also P-value is < 0.05 in SPSS analysis), 42.11% of respondents have decreased their interaction with teachers, 45.06% of respondents have decreased their interaction among classmates, 50% of the students have become worse at time management during offline exams, 54.3% of respondents agreed that their interest in participating in extracurricular activities has reduced, and 66.9% of respondents agreed that their financial status is badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the case of physical matters, 73.89% of respondents revealed that they are affected by irregular sleep, and 45.97% of females are affected by irregularities in their menstrual cycles. Also, females are more affected by muscle pain (50.93%), breathing disorders (38.58%), cholesterol (12.65%), stroke (19.13%), fainting (23.45%), and blood pressure (19.13%) than males. Through SPSS analysis our study found that three components (food intake, concentration in studies, and felt exhausted after small walk) are more significant. i.e., association between gender and the physical health component is statistically significant, association between gender and the concentration in studies is statistically significant and association between UG-PG and food intake is statistically significant (P-value < 0.05). Overall, the pandemic of COVID-19 negatively impacted the education, physical health, and financial matters of college students greatly.
AB - Closure of schools and colleges due to the COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant disruption to the educational systems worldwide. According to the UNESCO report, COVID-19 affected about 800 million students worldwide. This paper aims to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among college students in Kerala, one of the states in India. Through this quantitative study, we investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education matters, physical health, and financial matters for Kerala college students. For that, we sent an online questionnaire form via WhatsApp to college students, and 406 of them filled out the questionnaire. We analyzed the results with SPSS and Excel. Through this study, we concluded that, 62.31% of students have lost their concentration in studies (also P-value is < 0.05 in SPSS analysis), 42.11% of respondents have decreased their interaction with teachers, 45.06% of respondents have decreased their interaction among classmates, 50% of the students have become worse at time management during offline exams, 54.3% of respondents agreed that their interest in participating in extracurricular activities has reduced, and 66.9% of respondents agreed that their financial status is badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the case of physical matters, 73.89% of respondents revealed that they are affected by irregular sleep, and 45.97% of females are affected by irregularities in their menstrual cycles. Also, females are more affected by muscle pain (50.93%), breathing disorders (38.58%), cholesterol (12.65%), stroke (19.13%), fainting (23.45%), and blood pressure (19.13%) than males. Through SPSS analysis our study found that three components (food intake, concentration in studies, and felt exhausted after small walk) are more significant. i.e., association between gender and the physical health component is statistically significant, association between gender and the concentration in studies is statistically significant and association between UG-PG and food intake is statistically significant (P-value < 0.05). Overall, the pandemic of COVID-19 negatively impacted the education, physical health, and financial matters of college students greatly.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-96-9248-4_30
DO - 10.1007/978-981-96-9248-4_30
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105020175707
SN - 9789819692477
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 391
EP - 401
BT - Information System Design
A2 - Bhateja, Vikrant
A2 - El Barachi, May
A2 - Azar, Ahmad Taher
A2 - Sharma, Dilip Kumar
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 3 January 2025 through 4 January 2025
ER -