Transitioning from virtual to limited face-to-face : its impact to mental health of bachelor of science nursing students of Camarines Sur Polytechnic Colleges / Jaime Jr. D. Armillos, Belle Joy Maxine B. Bersabe, and Rica Angela M. Servino

Undergraduate Theses (BSN) - Nursing. Camarines Sur Polytechnic Colleges, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references.

There has been an unintended transition from traditional learning to a system that only uses virtual or online set up. Experiencing these abrupt and expected changes, students are physically cut off from their familiar on-campus support groups that resulted in significant changes and disruptions to daily life, elevated stress levels, and mental health destructions. Given the body of evidence showing how mental illness may adversely affect student success and degree persistence, it is important to address it. The study aims to explore the experience in the two-year abrupt shift to the mental health and succor in addressing the negative impacts on the students' mental health during the adjustment of the transition of Virtual to Limited face-to-face classes of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing Students of Camarines Sur Polytechnic Colleges. Their profiles considered, sex, year level, age, commuting and transporting time, church involvement, and family monthly income. This study was premised on the following assumptions that the profile of the respondents is significant in the assessment of the mental health impacts during the transition from virtual to limited face-to-face classes. The status of mental health during the virtual and limited face-to-face have factors that affect the students along personal, environmental, and sociological. There are positive and negative impacts identified during the transition of virtual and limited face-to-face classes. There are strategies to enhance the mental health status of the nursing students. There is a significant relationship in the mental health status of the nursing students during the transition of virtual to limited face-to-face classes according to their profile. There is a plan to be proposed to address the negative impacts of transitioning from virtual to limited face-to-face classes. This study employed descriptive and inferential method with a questionnaire as the main instrument of data gathering. Most of the respondents are female, in their first year as nursing students, belonged to the age group of 19-20 years old, included within the commuting and transport time of 30 minutes, seldom active in their churches, and majority have a less than P10, 957.00 family monthly income. Majority of the respondents encountered financial worry throughout the transition. A proposed plan was formulated to address the negative impacts on the mental health of the nursing students of Camarines Sur Polytechnic Colleges during the transition of Virtual to Limited face-to-face Classes.