Lifetime and 12-month treatment for mental disorders and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among first year college students.

Journal: International journal of methods in psychiatric research

Volume: 28

Issue: 2

Year of Publication: 2020

Affiliated Institutions:  Center for Public Health Psychiatry, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA. Health Services Research Unit, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), CIBER en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, Spain. Department of Psychology, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico. Department of Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Department for Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany. Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. School of Psychology, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. MRC Unit on Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa. Psychology Research Institute, Ulster University, Coleraine, UK. Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA. Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Abstract summary 

Mental disorders and suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB) are common and burdensome among college students. Although available evidence suggests that only a small proportion of the students with these conditions receive treatment, broad-based data on patterns of treatment are lacking. The aim of this study is to examine the receipt of mental health treatment among college students cross-nationally.Web-based self-report surveys were obtained from 13,984 first year students from 19 colleges in eight countries across the world as part of the World Health Organization's World Mental Health-International College Student Initiative. The survey assessed lifetime and 12-month common mental disorders/STB and treatment of these conditions.Lifetime and 12-month treatment rates were very low, with estimates of 25.3-36.3% for mental disorders and 29.5-36.1% for STB. Treatment was positively associated with STB severity. However, even among severe cases, lifetime and 12-month treatment rates were never higher than 60.0% and 45.1%, respectively.High unmet need for treatment of mental disorders and STB exists among college students. In order to resolve the problem of high unmet need, a reallocation of resources may focus on innovative, low-threshold, inexpensive, and scalable interventions.

Authors & Co-authors:  Bruffaerts Ronny R Mortier Philippe P Auerbach Randy P RP Alonso Jordi J Hermosillo De la Torre Alicia E AE Cuijpers Pim P Demyttenaere Koen K Ebert David D DD Green Jennifer Greif JG Hasking Penelope P Stein Dan J DJ Ennis Edel E Nock Matthew K MK Pinder-Amaker Stephanie S Sampson Nancy A NA Vilagut Gemma G Zaslavsky Alan M AM Kessler Ronald C RC

Study Outcome 

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Citations :  Alonso, J. , Vilagut, G. , Mortier, P. , Auerbach, R. P. , Bruffaerts, R. , Cujipers, P. , … WHO WMH‐ICS Collaborators (2018). The role impairment associated with mental disorder risk profiles in the WHO World Mental Health International College Student Initiative. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, in this Issue.
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Identifiers
Doi : e1764
SSN : 1557-0657
Study Population
Female
Mesh Terms
Female
Other Terms
affective disorders;anxiety;college students;health service;suicide
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Country of Study
Publication Country
United States