Factors That Affect the Mental Well-Being of Cadets While Inside the Academy

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has spread at an alarming rate and has become a major challenging public health problem around the world.  Students have been identified as a vulnerable group experiencing significant levels of stress, anxiety, and depression affecting their mental well-being. This study sought to assess the prevalence of impaired self-perceived mental well-being and identify associated factors among MOL Magsaysay Academy students while inside the academy. The researcher studied the 82 cadets that are currently enrolled in MOL Magsaysay Maritime Academy taking up BSME and BSMT. The researcher used interviews, qualitative research methods, and thematic analysis to identify the thoughts that bother the cadets while inside the academy in relation to personal, family, social, and academic life, understand their academic performance, and determine how the cadets deal with all the issues bothering them, the recommendations they can give to other cadets to cope with all these issues, and administrators and faculty of the academy to assist the cadets while inside the academy.