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Using an online survey with 2,291 students who took the October 2020 National ACT test, findings address reported anxiety and stress, access to mental health supports, and whether schools reached out to students. 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For example, we found in pre-pandemic research that students had a limited awareness of the mental health services available to them at their school.1 Early on in the pandemic, certain students reported that their families needed help accessing health care. In open-ended survey responses, many students also reported an increase in anxiety brought on by the pandemic, due to concerns such as worrying that their parents might get sick or having difficulty concentrating on schoolwork.2  \nWe expanded on prior research by asking students to indicate, near the beginning of the new 2020–2021 school year, their perceptions of how well their school was supporting their mental health and the extent to which daily life experiences during the pandemic had helped or hurt their mental health. We asked a random sample of high school students who sat for the 2020 October National ACT® test to participate in an online survey; a total of 2,291 students participated.3 These students provided us with insights regarding their learning context, the mental health support they received, and whether they had experienced additional stressors during the pandemic, particularly whether they had academic concerns this school year or concerns regarding their college preparedness.  \nBecause students varied in whether their schools were offering in-person, virtual, or hybrid learning (or had changed between these three learning models during the current school year), we further examined whether differences in learning contexts shaped the mental health support that students received from their schools or their concerns about academic preparedness. In our study, 41% of students reported engaging in a hybrid learning model, either by participating in a continuously hybrid learning model or by changing from in-person to virtual learning or viceversa in the first few months of the 2020–2021 school year. The remaining students indicated that for the first few months they had either learned virtually (32%) or in person (27%) but not both.4 We were particularly interested in discovering if those students who participated in hybrid and online learning models had similar mental health support compared to students who were in the classroom.  \nIn February 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued updated guidance regarding how schools can safely offer in-person learning, highlighting scientific data on reopening and an operational strategy for K–12 schools to do so.5 Among a wide range offactors to consider, the CDC recommended that schools identify how operational approaches to learning (i.e., in-person, virtual, hybrid) might impact their students’ mental health, particularly with equity in mind.  \nACT hopes that this latest study, which includes the voices of students themselves, will be useful to policymakers and school system administrators as they analyze and apply CDC guidelines in determining when and how to safely return students to the classroom.6  \nStudent Mental Health Support  \nAccording to both the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the CDC, students age 12–17 have experienced increased stress, anxiety, and depression because of the isolation brought on by the social distancing measures implemented to reduce the spread of COVID-19 .7 Moreover, we know that in earlier times when instruction was largely administered in person, high-quality relationships with teachers were shown to increase students’ academic and social-emotional well-being, as well as improving their mental health.8  \nTo this point, several students shared the effects of their learning mode on their academic and m","cbCairBNnN7tr0MP","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairBNnN7tr0MP","pdf",305176,"English","# Introduction\n## Student Mental Health Support\n## School Outreach and Comfort to Contact Adults","[{\"question\":\"What mental health concerns did students report during the pandemic?\",\"answer\":\"Students described increased anxiety and stress, including difficulty concentrating on schoolwork and worries related to family health. They also reported feeling overwhelmed by workloads and struggling to balance rest with studying.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the study conducted and how many students participated?\",\"answer\":\"The study surveyed a random sample of high school students who took the 2020 October National ACT test. In total, 2,291 students participated in the online survey.\"},{\"question\":\"Did students report that someone at school reached out to them for mental health support?\",\"answer\":\"Only 50% of students said someone reached out between the start of the school year and the late-October survey. Students in hybrid learning were less likely (46%) than those in person (55%), while 53% of remote learners reported outreach.\"}]","Mental Health Supports and Academic Preparedness for High School Students During the Pandemic - Insights in Education and Work May 2021 | PDF",1791513870,25]