WHO World Mental Health Surveys International College Student Project: Prevalence and distribution of mental disorders.

ABSTRACT: Increasingly, colleges across the world are contending with rising rates of mental disorders, and in many cases, the demand for services on campus far exceeds the available resources. The present study reports initial results from the first stage of the WHO World Mental Health International College Student project, in which a series of surveys in 19 colleges across 8 countries (Australia, Belgium, Germany, Mexico, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Spain, United States) were carried out with the aim of estimating prevalence and basic sociodemographic correlates of common mental disorders among first-year college students. Web-based self-report questionnaires administered to incoming first-year students (45.5% pooled response rate) screened for six common lifetime and 12-month DSM-IV mental di

SUBMITTER: Auerbach RP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6193834 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature