Exploring the relationship between mental health-related problems and undergraduate student dropout: A case study within a civil engineering program
Dropout has always been a concerning issue within higher education. This research explores the relationship between mental health-related problems and undergraduate students’ dropout rates amid the COVID-19 pandemic and within a civil engineering program. The study is quantitative descriptive, with...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Perú |
| Institución: | Universidad de Lima |
| Repositorio: | ULIMA-Institucional |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.ulima.edu.pe:20.500.12724/17859 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12724/17859 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09504 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | College dropouts Dropouts Undergraduates Engineering students Civil engineering COVID-19 (Disease) Case studies https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#2.01.00 |
| Sumario: | Dropout has always been a concerning issue within higher education. This research explores the relationship between mental health-related problems and undergraduate students’ dropout rates amid the COVID-19 pandemic and within a civil engineering program. The study is quantitative descriptive, with a non-experimental and longitudinal design. Results show that the dropout rates of civil engineering students from a private university have increased, comparing before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily due to mental health-related problems. Three strong tendencies within these rates have been detected, directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was concluded that undergraduate students’ mental health had been undermined due to the pandemics, which has had an immediate impact on the increase of dropout rates. |
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