Veteran College Students Mental Health and Academic Achievement

老大学生心理健康和学业成绩

• 批准号: 8486551
• 负责人: MARCIA VALENSTEIN
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-06-01 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8486551
• 关键词: Academic achievement; Address; Administrator; Afghanistan; Alcohol abuse; Alcohol consumption; Caring; Communities; Conflict (Psychology); Consent; Data; Data Quality; Development; Education; Enrollment; Evaluation; Failure; Feeling suicidal; Goals; Health; Health Services Administration; Health Services and Mental Health Administration; Healthcare; Institution; Intervention; Iraq; Leadership; Link; Location; Mental Health; Mental Health Services; Minority; Morbidity - disease rate; Multivariate Analysis; Outcome; Performance; Personal Satisfaction; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Population; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders; Prevalence; Process; Productivity; Psychotherapy; Quality of life; Reporting; Research Design; Resource Allocation; Sampling; Services; Students; Surveys; Symptoms; Target Populations; Veterans; Work; college; depressive symptoms; design; experience; follow-up; health administration; improved; meetings; member; outreach; preference; psychosocial; social; success; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Anticipated Impacts on Veterans Health: This study will produce the first rigorous assessment of mental health symptoms and hazardous alcohol use in Veteran students, a high priority population for the VA. Obtaining these data is a critical first step if the VA and colleges are to make informed decisions regarding optimal resource allocation for outreach efforts, the types of interventions that might be needed and desired by this target population, and the attributes of colleges where such interventions might be most needed and have the broadest impact. This study will also produce the first assessment of the link between Veteran student mental health and academic performance. Project Background: Mental health symptoms are highly prevalent among Veterans returning from the current conflicts.(2)(3)(4)A recent study of a convenience sample also reported startlingly high rates of mental health issues and suicidal ideation among Veteran college students, exceeding those observed among OEF/OIF Veterans seeking VA care.(5) In addition, several small studies have reported links between non-Veteran student mental health, poor college performance, and failure to graduate.(6) Project Objectives: Our objectives are to: assess the prevalence of mental health symptoms, hazardous alcohol use, and levels of wellbeing among a representative sample of Veteran and comparison college students. We will also assess mental health treatment use, treatment preferences, perceived treatment barriers, and academic performance. We will next assess relationships between mental health, treatment use, and academic performance. Finally, we will explore Veteran and comparison student work status and functioning when work is concurrent with studies and during college "stop outs". Study Design: Data for this study will primarily come from surveys of a representative sample of Veteran students and comparison students, supplemented by 1) surveys of college administrators; 2) academic administrative data, and 3) VHA healthcare data for Veteran students providing additional consent. A stratified cluster sample design will be used to select Veteran and comparison college students for the student survey. Sixty colleges and 2580 Veteran and comparison students within these institutions will be selected. Baseline and one and two year follow up surveys will assess well-being, mental health symptoms, alcohol use, social and academic integration, and treatment use. Data on GPA and stop out from enrollment will be assessed. Univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analyses of quantitative data will address study aims.

描述(由申请人提供)： 对退伍军人健康的预期影响：这项研究将对退伍军人的心理健康症状和危险酒精使用进行第一次严格的评估，退伍军人是退伍军人的高度优先考虑的人群。如果退伍军人管理局和大学要就外展工作的最佳资源分配、目标人群可能需要和希望的干预措施类型以及可能最需要和产生最广泛影响的大学的属性做出明智的决定，获得这些数据是关键的第一步。这项研究还将对老学生的心理健康和学习成绩之间的联系进行首次评估。项目背景：心理健康症状在从当前冲突中返回的退伍军人中非常普遍。(2)(3)(4)最近一项对便利样本的研究还报告了退伍军人大学生中心理健康问题和自杀意念的比例惊人地高，超过了寻求退伍军人护理的退伍军人/退伍军人中观察到的比例。(5)此外，几项小规模研究报告了非退伍军人学生心理健康、大学表现不佳和未能毕业之间的联系。(6)项目目标：我们的目标是：评估具有代表性的退伍军人和对照大学生中心理健康症状、危险酒精使用和幸福感水平的发生率。我们还将评估心理健康治疗的使用、治疗偏好、感知的治疗障碍和学习表现。接下来，我们将评估心理健康、治疗使用和学习成绩之间的关系。最后，我们将探索退伍军人和比较学生的工作状态和作用，当工作与学习同时进行时，以及大学期间的“休学”期间。研究设计：本研究的数据将主要来自对退伍军人学生和对照学生的代表性样本的调查，并辅之以1)对大学管理人员的调查；2)学术管理数据，以及3)提供额外同意的退伍军人健康保险数据。采用分层整群抽样设计，选取退伍军人和对照大学生进行学生调查。这些院校中的60所大学和2580名退伍军人和对照学生将被挑选出来。基线以及一年和两年的跟踪调查将评估幸福感、精神健康症状、酒精使用、社会和学术融合以及治疗使用。关于GPA和停止注册的数据将被评估。定量数据的单变量、双变量和多变量分析将针对研究目标。