The importance of physical and mental health in explaining health-related academic role impairment among college students.

ABSTRACT: Research consistently documents high rates of mental health problems among college students and strong associations of these problems with academic role impairment. Less is known, though, about prevalence and effects of physical health problems in relation to mental health problems. The current report investigates this by examining associations of summary physical and mental health scores from the widely-used Short-Form 12 (SF-12) Health Survey with self-reported academic role functioning in a self-report survey of 3,855 first-year students from five universities in the northeastern United States (US; mean age 18.5; 53.0% female). The mean SF-12 physical component summary (PCS) score (55.1) was half a standard deviation above the benchmark US adult population mean. The mean SF-12 mental co

SUBMITTER: Wilks CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7047531 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature