The mental health of university students in the United Kingdom

Macaskill, Ann

doi:10.1080/03069885.2012.743110

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“…The importance of external referral is confirmed by some participants in this study who received psychological or psychiatric help during the three months prior to the study and 17 participants (9%) using some form of psychiatric medication, similar to the 5% receiving treatment for psychological problems as found by Macaskill (2013). Thomson et al (2014) also found that a small number of students needed external support in their study as a result of stress in clinical settings.…”

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“…A study among dental students, however, revealed that 53% of students are presented with psychiatric morbidity (Makhal et al 2015) which concurs with university students in Iran where 49% (Mokhtari et al 2013) were classified with mental disorders. The lowest percentage of psychiatric caseness (17%) was found among students in the United Kingdom which correlates with that of the general population in the United Kingdom, namely 18% (Macaskill 2013). Because of the high stress experienced by health care students, Sandars et al (2014) suggested that student support should be an 'integral' part in health education and made available to all students and not only to those who 'struggle'.…”

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Stressors and coping strategies among physiotherapy students: Towards an integrated support structure

Vuuren

Bodenstein

Nel³

2018

Health SA Gesondheid

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Stressors and coping strategies among physiotherapy students: Towards an integrated support structure

Vuuren

Bodenstein

Nel³

2018

Health SA Gesondheid

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“…Recent research, however, highlights that this is not the only period of 19 concern. For example, a study of 1197 students from a UK university (Macaskill, 2013) 20 found highest levels of psychiatric symptoms in second-year students. It was argued that 21 while UK universities targeted additional support for first-year students to enable a smoother 22 transition to university life (Nelson et al, 2013), the second year of study comprises a While some students experience psychological disturbance during time at university, 7 many others cope effectively and some thrive amidst the challenges.…”

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Relationships between mental toughness and psychological wellbeing in undergraduate students

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Swann

et al. 2015

Personality and Individual Differences

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This study examined relationships between mental toughness (MT) and psychological wellbeing (PWB) in undergraduate students. Following previous research that identified significant and positive relations between MT and academic performance, it was hypothesised that MT would predict PWB within a student population. Participants were undergraduate students (n=168) from nine United Kingdom universities. The sample included participants from a range of different degree programmes and from all three years of standard undergraduate study. Online questionnaires were completed to assess MT and PWB. Multiple linear regression analyses found that components of MT were moderate to strong predictors of PWB with between 35% and 64% of variance explained. Importantly, age, gender, and level of study were not found to predict PWB. These findings are consistent with stated hypotheses and further demonstrate the potential importance of MT within educational settings

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“…As a direct outcome of this research, more efficient student prediction tools can be developed, improving the quality of education and enhancing school resource management [15]. In 2013 V. Vanno et al provide empirical evidence on the relationships between academic performance, perceived group PsyCap(Psychological Capital), and individual PsyCap of Thai undergraduate students.…”

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“…For the good predictive accuracy there were few researches which used decision tree algorithms and data mining [8], [1] and [15]. The impact of extracurricular activities to the student studies performance were vital to making an own method to calculate extracurricular performance according to the most effective factors in this implemented system [5] and [9].…”

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Sisu Manthalawa: Guiding Students towards a Better Future

Thelis¹,

Jayatunge²,

Kumarapeli³

et al. 2016

IJCA

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Learning one"s own strengths and weaknesses is essential when making important life decisions; especially for students that are obliged to make decisions about what path they are to persuade leading them to a carrier path without regret. Today most of the students do not have a proper understanding of their own talents, abilities or how they can accomplish their future goals. The system mentioned in this research paper provides a solution by helping grade 10 and 11 local students to learn about their own strengths and weaknesses thus guiding them when making important decisions about what paths to follow in the future and what aspect they need to improve on. Students" past performances, logical thinking and other attributes were taken into consideration to provide an accurate and comprehensible output depicting their weaknesses and strengths. Moreover, the output was analysed and used to aid teachers when dividing student groups inside the classroom for cooperative group activities. An intelligent system driven by algorithms to support logical and cooperative grouping strategies that uses statistical analysis and output analysis along with an online quiz for students to learn their logical thinking skills were used to produce the expected output. Information about extracurricular activities were collected from a selected group of 50 students using a questionnaire that had being analysed by the research group. Patterns of students" scoring were analysed to predict the score the same student would gain in the future using data mining methods and tools. Sisu Manthalawa is a web application that can help the local students to make decisions thus helping them stride towards a better future.

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The mental health of university students in the United Kingdom

Cited by 280 publications

References 30 publications

Stressors and coping strategies among physiotherapy students: Towards an integrated support structure

Stressors and coping strategies among physiotherapy students: Towards an integrated support structure

Relationships between mental toughness and psychological wellbeing in undergraduate students

Sisu Manthalawa: Guiding Students towards a Better Future

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