Evaluating a Student-Led Mental Health Awareness Campaign

A Student-Led Campaign to Help Tackle Neglected Tropical Diseases

July 2007 | Volume 4 | Issue 7 | e241 The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of chronic infections that are often considered together because they primarily affect one billion of the world’s poorest people and attract little attention from the global medical community [1]. The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (http:⁄⁄www.un.org/ millenniumgoals/) call for increased fundin...

The Development and Initial Validation of the Perinatal Mental Health Awareness Scale in Student Midwives

Background & aim: Perinatal mental health problems have been demonstrated to impact upon maternal, and fetal/child outcomes. Despite the global evidence and a policy-driven responsibility for identification of these problems, research demonstrates that student midwives/midwives lack knowledge and confidence to assess, identify, and manage them. A similar context is evident for learning disabili...

Development and evaluation of a youth mental health community awareness campaign – The Compass Strategy

BACKGROUND Early detection and treatment of mental disorders in adolescents and young adults can lead to better health outcomes. Mental health literacy is a key to early recognition and help seeking. Whilst a number of population health initiatives have attempted to improve mental health literacy, none to date have specifically targeted young people nor have they applied the rigorous standards ...

Student Mental Health

on the class of honours degree obtained. Quite apart from academic considerations, the symptoms so often impair capacity for social and personal relationships, and in this way impoverish the student's life and keep him from those experiences which would encourage his development. At University College, we have collected some data about the relationship between mental health and student "wastage...

Children's Mental Health Awareness Day.