HealthDay (9/13, Dallas) reports, “More than one in three first-year college students around the world struggle with a mental health disorder,” researchers concluded after analyzing “data collected on nearly 14,000 students from 19 colleges in eight countries – Australia, Belgium, Germany, Mexico, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Spain and the United States.” The findings were published online Sept. 13 in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
Meanwhile, Healio (9/13) reports, “Survey data from a large sample of U.S. college students revealed a high rate of multiple stress exposures among this population, which was strongly” associated with “a greater risk for suicide attempts and mental health diagnoses,” researchers concluded after studying “a sample of 67,308 U.S. undergraduate students across 108 institutions.” The findings were published online Sept. 6 in the journal Depression and Anxiety.
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— “1 in 3 College Freshmen Faces Mental Health Woes, “Mary Elizabeth Dallas, HealthDay, September 13, 2018.