Due to pressure from academic competition and future career planning, anxiety disorder has become one of the most common psychological problems among college students. Anxiety disorder not only affects their learning outcomes, but also causes interference in their daily lives. Psychological health education aims to help students understand and manage their emotions, while ideological and political education focuses on cultivating students’ values, worldviews, and outlook on life. The research aims to explore the effectiveness of combining mental health education with ideological and political education in the treatment of anxiety disorder in students.

The study randomly divided 164 college students with psychological anxiety into an experimental group and a control group. The control group received routine ideological and political education, while the experimental group received a combination of mental health education and ideological and political education. The experiment lasted for three months. The study used the Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAMA) to evaluate the intervention of anxiety disorders in students.

Before the experiment, there was no significant difference in anxiety scores between the two groups of students (P>0.05); After last month, the anxiety symptoms of the experimental group students were significantly improved and significantly lower than those of the control group students (P<0.05).

The combination of mental health and ideological and political education can effectively alleviate students’ psychological anxiety and provide a positive impact on their learning and life.

Key project of research and practice on higher education teaching reform in Henan Province in 2021 (No. 2021SJGLX951).