INTERNET USE BEHAVIOR: EMERGING STUDENT MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEM

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...

Student mental health; below the radar?

In 2011, the Royal College of Psychiatrists issued a report on the mental health of students in higher education. The report made recommendations for psychiatrists and the National Health Service, for Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) and a broader category of 'all sectors'. One of the challenges of working with this potential group of patients is that students may well live within the area of...

Place of Internet in Health information seeking behavior: Case of young Internet users in Shiraz

Background and Aim: Nowadays, Internet is known as an attractive source of health information to manage individual's health.  Given the importance of it, this study examined the role of Internet in health information seeking behavior among young people in Shiraz.      Method: This research was a survey which target population were youth Internet users in the city of Shiraz.  A sample of 400 we...

Emerging Trends In Mental Health Policy

The continuing deinstitutionalization of patients in public mental hospitals and the growth of managed care are fundamentally altering mental health practice. Managed care provides opportunities for achieving parity of insurance coverage between mental and physical illness, but serious problems persist in integrating mental health, substance abuse, and general medical care and assuring an appro...

\"Internet of Things\": An Emerging Real-Time Technology for Environmental Health Monitoring