Mental health trajectories in undergraduate students over the first year of university: a longitudinal cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study examined the association between candidate psychosocial and lifestyle variables and the trajectories of clinically significant anxiety and depressive symptoms from entry to completion of first-year university.

Design

A longitudinal cohort study PARTICIPANTS: First-year undergraduate students METHODS: We analysed the responses of 1686 first-year undergraduate students attending Queen's University who completed electronic surveys at both the beginning and completion of their academic year. Predictors of change in positive anxiety and depressive symptom screens (based on exceeding validated symptom threshold scores) were identified using logistic regression.

Results

Increased university connectedness reduced the odds of emergent significant depressiv

SUBMITTER: Adams KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8666865 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature