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SUBMITTER: Tabor E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8068655 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tabor Evangeline E Patalay Praveetha P Bann David D
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology 20210215 5
Despite increasing policy focus on mental health provision for higher education students, it is unclear whether they have worse mental health outcomes than their non-student peers. In a nationally-representative UK study spanning 2010-2019 (N = 11,519), 17-24 year olds who attended higher education had lower average psychological distress (GHQ score difference = - 0.37, 95% CI - 0.60, - 0.08) and lower odds of case-level distress than those who did not (OR = 0.91, 95% CI 0.81, 1.02). Increases ...[more]