Major Differences: Variations in Undergraduate and Graduate Student Mental Health and Treatment Utilization Across Academic Disciplines

Lipson, Sarah Ketchen; Zhou, Sasha; Wagner, Blake; Beck, Katie; Eisenberg, Daniel

doi:10.1080/87568225.2016.1105657

“…Our study also found that students from rural backgrounds are more likely than students from urban backgrounds to face instrumental related barriers to access professional mental health care. This might be because of adolescents from rural areas may not have an increased knowledge of mental illnesses so that they may not have sufficient information about the availability of free mental health services in the university and they may not be psychologically open toward professional mental health services [82]. Our finding confirms with the past study conducted in Australia reporting that adolescents from rural areas have more instrumental related challenges for receiving formal mental health care than adolescents from urban areas [83].…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 79%

Mental distress, perceived need and barriers to receive professional mental health care among university students

Negash

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Ahmed

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Medhin

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et al. 2020

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Context: There is limited evidence on the extent of the perceived need for professional mental health care and barriers to the delivery of mental distress services among university students in low and middle-income countries. Objective: The current study was designed to assess the prevalence of mental distress, perceived need for professional mental health care and barriers to the delivery of the service for regular undergraduate university students. Methods: A multi-stage sampling technique was used to recruit 1135 regular undergraduate university students. Symptoms of mental distress were evaluated using the Self-Reported Questionnaire (SRQ-20) and a score of eight and above was used to identify positive cases. The perceived need for professional mental health care was assessed using one question with binary responses, whereas barriers to mental health care were assessed using Barriers to Access to Care Evaluation (BACE-30) tool. The association of demographic variables with total mean scores of BACE-III sub-scales was modeled using multiple linear regression. Results: The prevalence of mental distress symptoms was 34.6% and the perceived need for professional mental health care was 70.5%. The top five barriers to receiving professional mental health service were (a) thinking the problem would get better by itself, (b) being unsure where to go to get professional care, (c) wanting to solve the problem by own, (d) denying mental health problem, and (e) preferring to get alternative forms of mental care. Conclusions: The high prevalence of mental distress, mental health care gap, and the report of barriers to professional mental health care among Ethiopian regular undergraduate students is a call for action. Keywords: Mental distress, Perceived need, Barrier, and Professional mental health care.

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“…Students from this department are more likely to be exposed to mental distress, due to heavy course loads both in theories and application [75]. Hence, they may encounter more barriers to receiving professional mental health services compared to other fields of study [76].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mental distress, perceived need and barriers to receive professional mental health care among university students

Negash

¹

,

Ahmed

²

,

Medhin

³

et al. 2019

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Context: There is limited evidence on the extent of the perceived need for professional mental health care and barriers to the delivery of mental distress services among university students in low and middle-income countries. Objective: The current study was designed to assess the prevalence of mental distress, perceived need for professional mental health care and barriers to the delivery of the service for regular undergraduate university students. Methods: A multi-stage sampling technique was used to recruit 1135 regular undergraduate university students. Symptoms of mental distress were evaluated using the Self-Reported Questionnaire (SRQ-20) and a score of eight and above was used to identify positive cases. The perceived need for professional mental health care was assessed using one question with binary responses, whereas barriers to mental health care were assessed using Barriers to Access to Care Evaluation (BACE-30) tool. The association of demographic variables with total mean scores of BACE-III sub-scales was modeled using multiple linear regression. Results: The prevalence of mental distress symptoms was 34.6% and the perceived need for professional mental health care was 70.5%. The top five barriers to receiving professional mental health service were (a) thinking the problem would get better by itself, (b) being unsure where to go to get professional care, (c) wanting to solve the problem by own, (d) denying mental health problem, and (e) preferring to get alternative forms of mental care. Conclusions: The high prevalence of mental distress, mental health care gap, and the report of barriers to professional mental health care among Ethiopian regular undergraduate students is a call for action. Keywords: Mental distress, Perceived need, Barrier, and Professional mental health care.

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“…This questionnaire has undergone extensive validation in many populations, including university students and young Australians (Winefield, Goldney, Winefield, & Tiggemann, 1989;Yaghubi, Karimi, Omidi, Barouti, & Abedi, 2012). Similarly, Lipson et al (2016) assessed depression and anxiety symptoms using the Patient Health Questionnaire. This questionnaire is commonly used in research to screen for both major and subthreshold depression (Martin, Rief, Klaiberg, & Braehler, 2006;Yoon et al, 2014).…”

Section: Instrument Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The authors of five eligible articles developed new measures of well-being or mental illness (De Clerq et al, 2019;Juniper et al, 2012;Lipson et al, 2016;Rummell, 2015;Sverdlik & Hall, 2019). Rummell (2015) assessed depression and anxiety symptoms.…”

Section: Instrument Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring PhD Student’s Psychological Well-being: Are we seeing the whole picture?

Scott

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Takarangi

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2019

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The psychological well-being of PhD students has become of interest after reports of high levels of psychological distress and mental illness amongst these students. In an attempt to measure psychological well-being among PhD students, some studies have used instruments that measure constructs related to well-being, most commonly psychological distress, whilst overlooking some aspects of well-being. This review used a systematic approach to identify instruments used to measure PhD students in research and evaluate their quality. The search strategy identified 19 articles for inclusion. Most studies measured constructs related to well-being, mainly mental illness symptoms, or constructs associated with subjective well-being and self-determination theory. Few studies measured aspects of psychological well-being. Furthermore, few questionnaires were validated for this population and many measures had no validity or reliability information available. Future research should use good quality measures to assess overlooked aspects and provide a comprehensive assessment of well-being in this student group.

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Major Differences: Variations in Undergraduate and Graduate Student Mental Health and Treatment Utilization Across Academic Disciplines

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Mental distress, perceived need and barriers to receive professional mental health care among university students

Measuring PhD Student’s Psychological Well-being: Are we seeing the whole picture?

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