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Strengthening College Students' Mental Health Knowledge, Awareness, and Helping Behaviors: The Impact of Active Minds, a Peer Mental Health Organization.
Sontag-Padilla, Lisa; Dunbar, Michael S; Ye, Feifei; Kase, Courtney; Fein, Rebecca; Abelson, Sara; Seelam, Rachana; Stein, Bradley D.
Afiliação
  • Sontag-Padilla L; RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Dunbar MS; RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Ye F; RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Kase C; RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Fein R; Active Minds, Santa Rosa, CA.
  • Abelson S; doctoral precandidate with the University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor.
  • Seelam R; RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA.
  • Stein BD; RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA. Electronic address: stein@rand.org.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry ; 57(7): 500-507, 2018 07.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29960695
OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between college students' familiarity with and involvement in Active Minds, a student peer organization focused on increasing mental health awareness, decreasing stigma, and affecting mental health knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. METHOD: Students (N = 1,129) across 12 California colleges completed three waves of a web-based survey during the 2016-2017 academic year to assess familiarity with and involvement in Active Minds and mental health attitudes, behaviors, and perceived knowledge. Fixed-effects models assessed relations between changes in organization familiarity and involvement and changes in mental health-related outcomes over time overall and stratified by students' baseline engagement (ie, familiarity/involvement) with Active Minds. RESULTS: Overall, increased familiarity with Active Minds was associated with increases in perceived knowledge (0.40; p < .001) and decreases in stigma over time (-0.33; p < .001). Increased involvement was associated with increases in perceived knowledge (0.40; p < .001) and a range of helping behaviors. Associations differed by students' baseline engagement with Active Minds. For students with low engagement, increased familiarity with Active Minds was associated with decreased stigma and improved perceived knowledge. For students with moderate baseline engagement, increasing involvement with Active Minds was associated with increases in helping behaviors (eg, providing emotional support, connecting others to services) over time. CONCLUSION: Student peer organizations' activities can improve college student mental health attitudes and perceived knowledge and significantly increase helping behaviors. Such organizations can complement more traditional programs and play an important role in improving the campus climate with respect to mental health.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Grupo Associado / Estudantes / Conscientização / Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde / Saúde Mental / Comportamento de Ajuda Tipo de estudo: Qualitative_research Limite: Adult / Female / Humans / Male País/Região como assunto: America do norte Idioma: En Revista: J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry Assunto da revista: PEDIATRIA / PSIQUIATRIA Ano de publicação: 2018 Tipo de documento: Article País de publicação: Estados Unidos

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Grupo Associado / Estudantes / Conscientização / Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde / Saúde Mental / Comportamento de Ajuda Tipo de estudo: Qualitative_research Limite: Adult / Female / Humans / Male País/Região como assunto: America do norte Idioma: En Revista: J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry Assunto da revista: PEDIATRIA / PSIQUIATRIA Ano de publicação: 2018 Tipo de documento: Article País de publicação: Estados Unidos