Mental Health in American Colleges and Universities
Variation Across Student Subgroups and Across Campuses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23342003 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dan Eisenberg (0000-0001-5597-7925, University of Michigan, corresponding author), Daniel Eisenberg (0000-0002-1320-5502), Justin Hunt (0000-0003-0287-1048, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences), Nicole K Speer (0009-0009-3204-7595, Applied Behavioral Research (United States)), Nicole Speer |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 201 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 60-67 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3018 • E-ISSN: 1539-736X |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/nmd.0b013e31827ab077 |
| PMID | 23274298 |
| OpenAlex | W2029273432 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 153 |
| References cited | 21 |
We estimated the prevalence and correlates of mental health problems among college students in the United States. In 2007 and 2009, we administered online surveys with brief mental health screens to random samples of students at 26 campuses nationwide. We used sample probability weights to adjust for survey nonresponse. A total of 14,175 students completed the survey, corresponding to a 44% participation rate. The prevalence of positive screens was 17.3% for depression, 4.1% for panic disorder, 7.0% for generalized anxiety, 6.3% for suicidal ideation, and 15.3% for nonsuicidal self-injury. Mental health problems were significantly associated with sex, race/ethnicity, religiosity, relationship status, living on campus, and financial situation. The prevalence of conditions varied substantially across the campuses, although campus-level variation was still a small proportion of overall variation in student mental health. The findings offer a starting point for identifying individual and contextual factors that may be useful to target in intervention strategies.
Anxiety · Depression (economics) · Environmental health · Ethnic group · Intervention (counseling) · Mental health · Panic · Poison control · Political science · Psychiatry · Religiosity · Sociology · Suicidal ideation · Suicide prevention · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Demography · Medicine · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Psychology · Social Psychology · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
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