Characterizing Mental Health and Wellness in Students Across Engineering Disciplines
Characterizing Mental Health and Wellness in Students Across Engineering Disciplines
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跨工程学科学生的心理健康特征
DOI：
10.18260/1-2--29522
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发表时间：
2018
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通讯作者：
K. Beddoes
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作者：
Andrew Danowitz;K. Beddoes
长期以来，坊间证据一直支持这样一种观点，即工程专业的学生的心理健康水平低于同龄人。人们通常认为，大量的课程，整体保留率低，困难的课程，以及大量的密集工程项目导致了不健康的工作与生活的平衡，并最终降低了这一人群的心理健康水平。然而，到目前为止，还没有关于困扰工程专业学生的心理健康状况的患病率和类型的综合研究，也没有关于工程专业的某些学科是否比其他学科的学生更容易患上某些心理健康状况的数据。本文介绍了一项为期一年的研究结果，在加州理工州立大学，以解决知识差距周围的心理健康在不同的工程学科的学生在高等教育。在这项研究中，作者开发并管理了一个全面的心理健康问卷，包括11个不同工程学科的本科生和研究生。该仪器可以筛查抑郁、焦虑、创伤后应激障碍、药物滥用、酗酒和其他主要精神疾病的可能性。对数据的分析表明，虽然心理健康和健康问题在所有专业都很普遍，但特定学科似乎有非常不同的条件和影响学生的问题。
Anecdotal evidence has long supported the idea that engineering students have lower levels of mental health and wellness than their peers. It is often posited that the large number of courses, low overall retention, difficult courses, and the abundance of intensive engineering projects lead to an unhealthy work-life balance and eventually lower levels of mental health for this population. To date, however, there has been no comprehensive study on the prevalence and types of mental health conditions that afflict engineering students, or any data on whether certain disciplines within engineering may see a greater prevalence of certain mental health conditions among students than other disciplines. This paper presents the results of a one-year study performed at California Polytechnic State University to address the knowledge gap surrounding mental health across students in different engineering disciplines in higher education. For this study, the authors developed and administered a comprehensive mental health questionnaire to both undergraduate and graduate students across eleven different engineering disciplines. The instrument screens for likelihood of depression, anxiety, PTSD, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, and other major mental illnesses. An analysis of the data shows that while mental health and wellness issues are prevalent across all majors, specific disciplines appear to have very different mixes of conditions and issues affecting their students.
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作者：
Blanco, Carlos;Okuda, Mayumi;Wright, Crystal;Hasin, Deborah S.;Grant, Bridget F.;Liu, Shang-Min;Olfson, Mark
通讯作者：
Olfson, Mark