Predictors of mental health and academic outcomes in first-year university students: Identifying prevention and early-intervention targets.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although there is growing interest in mental health problems in university students there is limited understanding of the scope of need and determinants to inform intervention efforts.

Aims

To longitudinally examine the extent and persistence of mental health symptoms and the importance of psychosocial and lifestyle factors for student mental health and academic outcomes.

Method

Undergraduates at a Canadian university were invited to complete electronic surveys at entry and completion of their first year. The baseline survey measured important distal and proximal risk factors and the follow-up assessed mental health and well-being. Surveys were linked to academic grades. Multivariable models of risk factors and mental health and academic outcomes were fit a

SUBMITTER: Duffy A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7331085 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature