Student mental health

The Data set that has been used for this article was collected by a survey conducted by Google forms from University student in order to examine their current academic situation and mental health.You can find all my calculations, visualizations and datasets that I used in this analysis in my Githubpage here.

What is mental health and why is it so important?

Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. But, poor mental health is a problem that appears more and more in adolescence. Feelings of anxiety, depression and panic attack deluge the youth, causing behavioral and bad temper problems in them. I used a dataset from Kaggle, which is from a questionnaire on the effects of mental health on University students' CGPA. It is a rather small sample but it can say a lot about student's mental health and if this is related to their academic situation.

Explaining the dataset

In this survey, they took part 100 University students. The 25% was male and 75% was female students and their ages where between 18 to 24 years old. As we can observe we do not have many students between 21 and 22 years old.

Mental Health by Age

Grouping our dataset by their age we can observe that:

Many students in this University at the age of 18 and 24 years old have experienced feelings of anxiety, depression, and panic attack

Those feelings are not so intensive for 20, 21, and 22 years old

Mental Health by Year

Grouping our dataset by the year that students are, we can observe that:

Students in their first years of study are experiencing more mental health problems

Those feelings are almost eliminated in the last year (year 4) of University.

Mental Health by CGPA

Grouping our dataset by their grades, we can observe that:

Students with bigger grades seems to have more poor mental health

Student with lower grades do not develop so many bad feelings

Specialist Treatment

According to World Health Organization (WHO), adolescence is a crucial period for developing social and emotional habits important for mental well-being. These include adopting healthy sleep patterns; exercising regularly; developing coping, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills; and learning to manage emotions. Protective and supportive environments in the family, at school and in the wider community are important.

In this survey, all the students that answered that they have mental health problems were also asked if they sought any specialist treatment. The outcome is rather disappointed as the majority of them didn't ask for help of any kind, as we can see from the outcomes below.

Solutions to address this issue

This is a problem that should be treated from a young age and everyone should be involved school, parents and families and healthcare providers.

What school can do:


What families can do:



What health care providers can do:

Linking students to mental health services.
Integrating social emotional learning.
Supporting staff mental health.
Building safe and supportive environments.

Communicate openly and honestly, including about their values.
Spend time with their adolescent enjoying shared activities.
Communicate regularly with teachers and administrators.

Encourage positive parenting practices.
Ask adolescents about family relationships and school experiences as a part of routine health screenings.
Educate parents and youth about adolescent development and health risks.

More information:

Children’s Mental Health
Teen Mental Health

Student Mental Health