Digital mental health literacy -program for the first-year medical students' wellbeing: a one group quasi-experimental study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical students are prone to mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety, and their psychological burden is mainly related to their highly demanding studies. Interventions are needed to improve medical students' mental health literacy (MHL) and wellbeing. This study assessed the digital Transitions, a MHL program for medical students that covered blended life skills and mindfulness activities.

Methodology

This was a one group, quasi-experimental pretest-posttest study. The study population was 374 first-year students who started attending the medical faculty at the University of Turku, Finland, in 2018-2019. Transitions was provided as an elective course and 220 students chose to attend and 182 agreed to participate in our research. Transitions included two

SUBMITTER: Kurki M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8571980 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature