Mental health issues and university student dropouts

Relevance of mental health issues in university student dropouts.

BACKGROUND A significant proportion of university students drop out of their courses, representing a significant loss of resources in terms of funds invested in them, as well as loss of revenue to universities. AIMS To determine whether a history of recent or current mental health problems affected the likelihood of university students dropping out of their studies and, if so, whether additio...

Student driven mental health promotion in an Australian university setting

The purpose of this study was to investigate university students' perceptions of mental health problems, through an exploration of proposed health promotion interventions. An action research approach was undertaken to inform the health promotion interventions of the MindWise study. A qualitative thematic analysis of focus group data was undertaken. Three themes were abstracted from the data: th...

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...

Pediatric mental health issues.

Mental Health Issues

The following overview discusses and compares the findings and implications of the articles in this issue of the Health Care Financing Review that deal with mental health topics-particularly children's mental health- in the Medicaid context. It also briefly describes articles concerning prospective payments for psychiatric patients under Medicare.