Paper Title
Psychosocial Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis on Middle and High School Students

Abstract
Children are hit by the hardest psychosocial impact of this pandemic. Parents, Relatives or neighbours who are being quarantined in homes and institutions may impose greater psychological burden than the physical sufferings caused by the virus. School closure, lack of outdoor activity, aberrant dietary and sleeping habits are likely to disrupt children's usual lifestyle and can potentially promote monotony, distress, impatience, annoyance and varied neuropsychiatric manifestations. Incidences of domestic violence, child abuse, adulterated online contents are on the rise. Children of single parent and frontline workers suffer unique problems. Parents, pediatricians, psychologists, social workers, hospital authorities, government and non-governmental organizations have important roles to play to mitigate the psychosocial ill-effects of COVID-19 on children and adolescents. To provide the basic amenities, social security, medical care, and to minimize the educational inequities among the children of the different strata of the society are foremost priorities. The study focuses on Middle and High level school children from the age group of 10- 16 years who are studying from 6th std to 12th std. There are nearly 25-30 schools including Government and Private Institution. So, Through Random Sampling lottery method, the researcher chooses around 2 schools of Private institutions in one block of cuddalore which is a co-educational school to obtain the feasibility of the study. So, out of 2 schools (School name not revealed for confidentiality purpose), nearly 1680 students are there. For Qualitative study, 10 respondents are chosen through purposive sampling method and for Quantitative study, 200 students are selected through cluster sampling method dividing them according to age and gender. The study is descriptive and exploratory in nature as it involves both Qualitative and Quantitative analysis. Hypothesis is not obtained as it is a new study implemented from a pandemic crisis. It gives rise to a new kind of study for further analysis in future. As there is no hypothesis, variables are not obtained. May be, Variables like Chikungunya kind of hypothesis can be considered but the severity of COVID 19 lockdown does not exist in those kinds of variables. So, considering variables and hypothesis is unrealistic. Keywords - Frontline workers; Middle and High school students ; Psychosocial; Psychological; Pandemic crisis