Help-Seeking and Access to Mental Health Care in a University Student Population

By D. Eisenberg, Ezra Golberstein, Sarah E. Gollust. Medical Care, 2007

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Increasing Resilience: Strategies for Reducing Dropout Rates for College Students with Psychiatric Disabilities (2010, background): “With increasing numbers of students with mental health disorders on college campuses (Eisenberg et al., 2007), disability offices have started to collaborate with other campus providers such as counseling and psychiatric-support offices ‘‘to educate the campus community regarding mental illness and ”
The WHO World Mental Health Surveys International College Student Project: Prevalence and Distribution of Mental Disorders (2018, neutral): “This finding is broadly consistent with earlier college student surveys in documenting high recent prevalence of common mental disorders (Blanco et al., 2008; Cho et al., 2015; Eisenberg et al., 2007; Kendler et al., 2015); although most earlier surveys were carried out in the U.”
Mental health problems and help-seeking behavior among college students. (2010, background): “In our research we found that common barriers include a lack of a perceived need for help, being unaware of services or insurance coverage, and skepticism about treatment effectiveness [63].”
Persistence of mental health problems and needs in a college student population. (2009, methodology): “As a longitudinal extension of the Healthy Minds Study (Eisenberg et al., 2007a,b), we conducted a follow-up webbased survey in fall 2007 among students who completed the baseline survey in fall 2005.”
Social support and mental health among college students. (2009, background): “Additional description of sociodemographic, mental health-related, and other measures collected by the Healthy Minds Study can be found in Eisenberg et al. (2007).”
Digital Mental Health Interventions for Depression, Anxiety, and Enhancement of Psychological Well-Being Among College Students: Systematic Review (2018, positive): “Many students have low mental health literacy and do not recognize a need for treatment but rather believe that these depression and anxiety symptoms are typical college stress and, therefore, do not warrant treatment [5].”
Understanding undergraduate student perceptions of mental health, mental well-being and help-seeking behaviour (2016, background): “This has been reported previously in students in a US university who noted that this perception of normality was a barrier to help seeking (Eisenberg et al., 2007).”
Mental Health in American Colleges and Universities: Variation Across Student Subgroups and Across Campuses (2013, background): “…study of student mental health used an abbreviated nonresponse follow-up survey with higher incentives and found that students with mental health problems were somewhat more likely to respond to the initial survey, presumably because they had a vested interest in the topic (Eisenberg et al., 2007).”
Tracking Depression Dynamics in College Students Using Mobile Phone and Wearable Sensing (2018, background): “The result is consistent with what other colleges experience [22].”
Perceived barriers and facilitators to mental health help-seeking in young people: a systematic review (2010, background): “This process resulted in a total of 22 relevant studies [20-41] for inclusion into the review.”