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Mental disorders among college students in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys
Psychological Medicine · 2016 · Vol. 46(14) · pp. 2955–2970
Randy P. Auerbach(Harvard University)Jordi Alonso(Universitat Pompeu Fabra)William G. Axinn(University of Michigan)Pim Cuijpers(Amsterdam Public Health)David Daniel Ebert(Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)Jennifer Green(Boston University)I. Hwang(Harvard University)Ronald C. Kessler✉(Harvard University)Howard Liu(Harvard University)Philippe Mortier(KU Leuven)Matthew K. Nock(Harvard University)Arthur D. P. Mak(Harvard University)Nancy A. Sampson(Harvard University)Sergio Aguilar‐Gaxiola(University of California, Davis)A. Al-Hamzawi(University of Al-Qadisiyah)Laura Helena Andrade(Universidade de São Paulo)Corina Benjet(Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz)José Miguel Caldas‐de‐Almeida(University of Lisbon)Koen Demyttenaere(KU Leuven)Silvia Florescu(National School of Public Health, Management and Professional Development)Giovanni de Girolamo(University of Brescia)Oye Gureje(University College Hospital, Ibadan)Josep María Haro(Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental)Elie G. Karam(University of Balamand)Andrzej Kiejna(Wroclaw Medical University)Viviane Kovess–Masféty(École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique)S. Lee(Chinese University of Hong Kong)John J. McGrath(The University of Queensland)Siobhan O’Neill(University of Ulster)B.‐E. Pennell(University of Michigan)Kate M. Scott(University of Otago)M. ten Have(Trimbos Institute)Yolanda Torres(Universidad CES)Alan M. Zaslavsky(Harvard University)Zahari Zarkov(National Center of Public Health and Analyses)Ronny Bruffaerts(Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven)
Abstract
Mental disorders are common among college students, have onsets that mostly occur prior to college entry, in the case of pre-matriculation disorders are associated with college attrition, and are typically untreated. Detection and effective treatment of these disorders early in the college career might reduce attrition and improve educational and psychosocial functioning.
Employment and Welfare StudiesMental Health Treatment and AccessHealth disparities and outcomesMatriculationMental healthCIDIAnxietyAttritionPsychiatryPsychologyMood disordersDepression (economics)Clinical psychology
MeSH terms
AdolescentAdultMental DisordersFemaleHealth SurveysHumansMaleMental HealthStudentsUniversitiesGlobal HealthWorld Health OrganizationYoung Adult
Funding
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- John W. Alden Trust
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Pfizer
- AstraZeneca
- GlaxoSmithKline
- World Health Organization
- Australian Government
- Universidad CES
- European Commission
- Public Health Agency
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
- Generalitat de Catalunya
- Bundesministerium für Gesundheit
- Shire
- Universidade de Lisboa
- Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología
- Regione Piemonte
- Fakultet Medicinskih Nauka, Univerziteta U Kragujevcu
- Servier
- H. Lundbeck A/S
- Fundação Champalimaud
- Ministerio de Salud
- Ministerstwo Zdrowia
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- Pfizer Foundation
- Pan American Health Organization
- Executive Agency for Health and Consumers
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III
- Departament de Salut, Generalitat de Catalunya
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- Fogarty International Center
- Cilag
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