Table 2.

Student Mental Health Factors from the 2017 Mental Health Survey

	N	Unweighted Percentage	Weighted Percentage
Psychological distress*
Nervous	1,632	27.06	25.21
Hopeless	891	14.79	14.02
Restless or fidgety	1,780	29.55	28.27
So depressed that nothing could cheer you up	769	12.76	12.68
Mental health care service utilization**
Received services on campus	410	6.79	5.88
Received services off campus	840	13.93	13.94
Homelessness***
Past 30 days	372	6.17	6.27
Past 12 months	453	7.52	7.46
Slept at a friend's or family member's home because had nowhere else to stay
Past 30 days	449	7.44	7.33
Past 12 months	694	11.51	10.98

^*Categorized as “yes” if answered most or all of the time during past 30 days on psychological distress items.

^**Denominator is full sample (N = 6,111). Categorized as “yes” if service utilization while at students' current campuses.

^***Homelessness is defined as having spent the night in any of these places because the respondent had nowhere else to stay: in a youth or adult shelter; in a public place, such as a train or bus station, a restaurant, or an office building; in an abandoned building; outside in a park, on the street, under a bridge or overhang, or on a rooftop; in a subway or other public place underground; with someone you did not know because you needed a place to stay; or in a car, truck, or van.