Eastern Kentucky University Encompass Honors Theses Student Scholarship Spring 5-2021 Exploring Mental Health & COVID-19: How a Pandemic Could Become America's Next Mental Health Crisis Ashley D. Shofner Eastern Kentucky University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://encompass.eku.edu/honors_theses Recommended Citation Shofner, Ashley D., "Exploring Mental Health & COVID-19: How a Pandemic Could Become America's Next Mental Health Crisis" (2021). Honors Theses. 834. https://encompass.eku.edu/honors_theses/834 This Open Access Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Scholarship at Encompass. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of Encompass. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY Exploring Mental Health and COVID-19: How a Pandemic Could Become America’s Next Mental Health Crisis Honors Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of HON 420 Spring 2021 By Ashley D. Shofner Mentor Dr. Molly A. McKinney Associate Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Administration 3 An Abstract Of Exploring Mental Health and COVID-19: How a Pandemic Could Become America’s Next Mental Health Crisis By Ashley D. Shofner Mentor Dr. Molly A. McKinney Associate Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Administration Abstract Description: A pandemic can be described as an epidemic disease that has spread over a large geographical area and has become prevalent in numerous sectors of the globe. In 2020, just over 100 years since our last major pandemic, the 1918 Influenza outbreak, the global community is facing yet another threat: COVID-19.