Many studies on the mental health of college students are conducted due to the overloaded
system of education they are exposed to. However, there is a gap in the academy about
these parameters in basic education, especially when it is an unconventional institution such
as federal institutes that have a modality of education that integrates high school with the
technical subjecting students to an equal or even more reality. overloaded than that of
universities. With this, the present work aimed to make a diagnosis about the mental health
and well-being of the students of the initial modules for probing parameters such as sleep
and eating, and the exposure to the triggers of stress and anxiety, contributing data of this
theme to the gym and proposing pedagogical intervention proposals for these issues. The
study revealed that more than 60% of the study population claimed to encounter triggers of
extreme stress and depression, in addition to falling sleep and food quality by more than
20% after joining IFPE-Campus Recife. In addition, the applied questionnaire helped to
trace the institution's positive and negative points so that intervention proposals could be
customized to fit the reality of the campus.
