Mental Health Issues Among College Students: Who Gets Referred for Psychopharmacology Evaluation?

Kirsch, Daniel J.; Doerfler, Leonard A.; Truong, Debbie

doi:10.1080/07448481.2014.960423

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“…Additionally, there is substantial research that demonstrates that harmful and hazardous alcohol consumption also contributes to arange of mental health problems and disorders including depression, anxiety, and stress or psychological distress [12,13]. Studies in Europe, the USA and Australia haveshown a high prevalence of alcohol use disorders, alcohol dependence, stress, anxiety,eating disorders and depression among university students [14–17] compared to their non-university peers [18]. The association between alcohol and mental health is bi-directional with studies suggesting that individuals who are predisposed to harmfulalcohol consumption are prone to episodes of stress, depression, and anxiety [13].…”

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The association between levels of alcohol consumption and mental health problems and academic performance among young university students

Tembo¹,

2017

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PurposeMental health problems and harmful alcohol consumption have been found to be high among young university students compared to the general population in Australia. This research aimed to investigate the association between levels of drinking and mental health problems and academic performance among university students aged 18 to 24 years.MethodsThis study used a quantitative cross-sectional design using data that were collected in 2014 as part of the Youth Alcohol Project (YAP). Participants were randomly drawn from a cross sectional sample of 6000 undergraduate students. Included in the study were only students who were within the age of 18–24, undergraduate, and internally enrolled at the main campus. A total of 2518 undergraduate students aged 18 to 24 years who were enrolled internally at Curtin University Bentley campus were randomly recruited. Data were collected through an online survey. Students were invited to participate in the study through their student email address. The email invitations coincided with the release of semester results to increase the likelihood of students accessing their emails. A further 628 students were randomly recruited through face to face intercept survey during the campus market days. Data were collected by trained research assistants. Validated instruments were used to collected data on levels of alcohol consumption, mental health, and academic performance.ResultsA considerable proportion of participants (44%) reported consuming alcohol at hazardous or harmful levels. Multiple logistic regression analysis showed that students who were consuming alcohol at hazardous levels were 1.2 times more likely to report psychological distress than those with lower levels of alcohol consumption (aOR 1.2, 95% CI: 1.1–1.5). In addition, being late for class (aOR 1.7, 95% CI:1.1–2.4), missing classes (aOR = 2.6, 95% CI: 1.9–2.6), inability to concentrate in class (aOR = 2.6, 95% CI: 1.9–3.4), and inability to complete assignments (aOR = 3.5, 95% CI 2.0–6.0) independently predicted for moderate or hazardous alcohol consumption.ConclusionThe study shows that a considerable proportion of undergraduate students at university consume alcohol at hazardous or harmful levels. In addition, high levels of alcohol consumption are associated with poor academic performance and mental health outcomes among students. The results of the study warrant multi-strategy interventions that focus on policy, organisational, educational, environmental and economic strategies that will help to reduce alcohol related harms among university students.

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The association between levels of alcohol consumption and mental health problems and academic performance among young university students

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2017

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“…3 Epidemiological evidence shows that depression and anxiety are the most common psychiatric problems in college students. 4 Youth who experience anxiety and depression have a significantly increased risk of negative physical and psychosocial outcomes, such as academic difficulties, poor interpersonal relationships, low selfesteem and suicide. 5 6 In the last decade, the use of electronic media devices has dramatically increased among youth.…”

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Impact of screen time on mental health problems progression in youth: a 1-year follow-up study

Tao

Zhang

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BMJ Open

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ObjectivesWe examined the relationships between screen time (ST) and mental health problems and also increment of ST and progression of mental health problems in a college-based sample of Chinese youth.MethodsWe assessed 2521 Chinese college freshmen from October 2013 to December 2014. At baseline, the mean age of participants was 18.43 years (SD 0.96 years), and 1215 (48.2%) participants reported ST >2 h/day. We estimated multivariable-adjusted ORs by using logistic regression models for the risk of developing mental health problems (anxiety, depression and psychopathological symptoms) and/or progression of these problems, according to baseline ST exposure and changes in exposure at follow-up.ResultsAt baseline, when ST >2 h/day was compared with ST ≤2 h/day, the OR was 1.38 (95% CI 1.15 to 1.65) for anxiety, 1.55 (95% CI 1.25 to 1.93) for depression and 1.49 (95% CI 1.22 to 1.83) for psychopathological symptoms. The results remained unchanged for depressive and psychopathological symptoms but not for anxiety, after additional adjustment for sex, age, residential background, body mass index, perceived family economy, sleep quality, smoking, alcohol intake, exercise after school and physical activity. When participants who had increased their ST exposure to >2 h/day were compared with those with no change and ST ≤2 h/day, the OR was 1.78 (95% CI 1.12 to 2.83) for anxiety, 1.92 (95% CI 1.23 to 2.83) for depression and 1.93 (95% CI 1.16 to 3.21) for psychopathological symptoms. These associations also remained after additional adjustment.ConclusionsThe overall effects are consistent yet small for ST/ST increment on mental health problems and its progression. Given the small effect size of the current results, it remains unclear the degree to which ST is a practically significant risk factor for mental health outcomes. Future studies of high quality are necessary to further examine this association and the direction of causality.

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“…Alcohol related harm is a major public health problem (Bell & Britton, 2014;WHO, 2012). Studies in Europe, the USA and Australia have shown a high prevalence of alcohol use disorders, alcohol dependence, stress, anxiety, eating disorders and depression among university students (Kirsch, Doerfler & Truong, 2014;Said, Kypri & Bowman, 2013;Slutske, 2005;Stallman, 2010) compared to their non-university peers (Cvetkovski, Reavley & Jorm, 2012). Studies of the association between alcohol and mental health suggest that individuals with harmful alcohol consumption are more likely to report stress, depression, and anxiety (Pereira et al, 2013).…”

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Anaemia is a global health problem, whose development is influenced by several factors. Helicobacter pylori infection is among the factors associated with anaemia. Long term interruption of malaria transmission in the highland area of Kipsamoite led to an increase of haemoglobin levels in some few individuals. However, there are still reported cases of low Hb levels associated with anaemia. In studies that have been done on the role of H. pylori infections on anaemia, researchers hold varied views on whether or not H. pylori infections play a role in iron deficiency anaemia. This study investigated the association between H. pylori infections and anaemia in children aged 5-15 years in Western highland region of Kenya. The study adopted a case-control design and purposive sampling technique was used in selection of subjects. Haemoglobin levels and H. pylori occurrence were measured and entered into Microsoft excel. These data was summarized into descriptive statistics. Chisquare was used in hypotheses testing. A total of 105 participants were enrolled, 35 were cases and 70 were the controls. The mean haemoglobin level was found to be statistically significantly (p<0.00), haemoglobin of cases was lower (11.05 ± 1.726) than that of controls (13.01±1.897). The proportion of anaemic children among the cases was 77.1% (27) while the non-anaemic were 22.9% (8). The Chi-square showed positive statistical significant difference (p<0.05) between cases and controls. The study concluded that there was a great association between H. pylori infection and occurrence of anaemia in Western region of Kenya.

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Mental Health Issues Among College Students: Who Gets Referred for Psychopharmacology Evaluation?

Abstract: Depression, anxiety, and ADHD are common among students referred by college counseling centers for medication evaluation and treatment.

Cited by 33 publications

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The association between levels of alcohol consumption and mental health problems and academic performance among young university students

The association between levels of alcohol consumption and mental health problems and academic performance among young university students

Impact of screen time on mental health problems progression in youth: a 1-year follow-up study

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