The role impairment associated with mental disorder risk profiles in the WHO World Mental Health International College Student Initiative.

Journal: International journal of methods in psychiatric research

Volume: 28

Issue: 2

Year of Publication: 2020

Affiliated Institutions:  Health Services Research Group, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain. Universitair Psychiatrisch Centrum-Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (UPC-KUL), Campus Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium. Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA. 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. School of Psychology, Ulster University, Londonderry, UK. Universidad De La Salle Bajio, Campus Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico. School of Education, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia. Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Psychology Department, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Abstract summary 

The objective of this study is to assess the contribution of mental comorbidity to role impairment among college students.Web-based self-report surveys from 14,348 first-year college students (Response Rate [RR] = 45.5%): 19 universities, eight countries of the World Mental Health International College Student Initiative. We assessed impairment (Sheehan Disability Scales and number of days out of role [DOR] in the past 30 days) and seven 12-month DSM-IV disorders. We defined six multivariate mental disorder classes using latent class analysis (LCA). We simulated population attributable risk proportions (PARPs) of impairment.Highest prevalence of role impairment was highest among the 1.9% of students in the LCA class with very high comorbidity and bipolar disorder (C1): 78.3% of them had severe role impairment (vs. 20.8%, total sample). Impairment was lower in two other comorbid classes (C2 and C3) and successively lower in the rest. A similar monotonic pattern was found for DOR. Both LCA classes and some mental disorders (major depression and panic, in particular) were significant predictors of role impairment. PARP analyses suggest that eliminating all mental disorders might reduce severe role impairment by 64.6% and DOR by 44.3%.Comorbid mental disorders account for a substantial part of role impairment in college students.

Authors & Co-authors:  Alonso Jordi J Vilagut Gemma G Mortier Philippe P Auerbach Randy P RP Bruffaerts Ronny R Cuijpers Pim P Demyttenaere Koen K Ebert David D DD Ennis Edel E Gutiérrez-García Raul A RA Green Jennifer Greif JG Hasking Penelope P Lee Sue S Bantjes Jason J Nock Matthew K MK Pinder-Amaker Stephanie S Sampson Nancy A NA Zaslavsky Alan M AM Kessler Ronald C RC

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Citations :  Abel, J. R. , & Deitz, R. (2012). Do colleges and universities increase their region's human capital? Journal of Economic Geography, 12(3), 667–691. 10.1093/jeg/lbr020
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Identifiers
Doi : e1750
SSN : 1557-0657
Study Population
Male,Female
Mesh Terms
Activities of Daily Living
Other Terms
college students;disability;role impairment
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Country of Study
Publication Country
United States