Therapeutic and Learning Benefits of Reading During COVID-19 Among Spanish Secondary Students

Abstract

During the confinement due to COVID-19, the educational centers tried to cope as much as possible with the continuity of the teaching-learning processes. In this research, it was tried to verify if the implementation of a proposal that promoted reading among secondary school students of a science subject, characteristic to improve their learning as well as benefit their mental health. The comparison of the results obtained in a test before and after carrying out the proposal confirmed that there was an improvement in learning and a perception of therapeutic effects of reading in this difficult situation. It is necessary to continue carrying out proposals of this type, even without being subjected to situations of anxiety and stress, in order to improve both learning and the mental health of students.