Implementation of the college student mental health education course (CSMHEC) in undergraduate medical curriculum: effects and insights.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Extant literature reveals that medical students suffer from various mental health problems in the process of learning medicine. However, there are few studies evaluating the implementation of a mental health education course in medical curriculum. The current study aimed to test the effectiveness of an 8-week intensive mental health education course, the College Student Mental Health Education Course (CSMHEC), and to gain further insights on how the course could be improved from students' feedback.

Methods

This is a quasi-experimental study with both quantitative and qualitative analyses. We recruited 374 first year medical students as our subjects with 188 (age = 17.97 ± 0.65 years, 37.2% male) for the experiment group and 186 (age = 18.02 ± 0.63 years, 40.3% mal

SUBMITTER: Wang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7731140 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature