Table 5. Mental health issues and psychological distress rates among undergraduate and general student samples.
Please refer to Table 1 for abbreviations.
| Source | Measurement scale | Demographic | Time range of
symptoms |
Type and result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stallman 31 | K10 scale | Australian mixed: 74%
undergraduate; 26% graduate |
Past 28 days | SMI risk, 19.2%; MMI risk,
64.7%; No risk, 16.1% |
| Zivin et al. 48 | PHQ-9, SCOFF | American mixed | Depression, anxiety or eating disorder:
At any given timepoint: >50% At both timepoints: >33% |
|
| Bruffaerts et al. 60 | GAIN-SS | Belgian freshmen | Past 12 months | Any mental health problem,
34.9% |
| Marcotte & Lévesque 25 | Varying (literature
review) |
European students | Varying (literature
review) |
Distress, 21-31% |
| Bírá et al. 61 | GHQ-12 | Hungarian health students | Past week | Distress, 19% |
| Bayram & Bilgel 52 | DASS-42 | Turkish undergraduates | Past week | Distress, 27% |
| Adlaf et al. 29 | GHQ-12 | Canadian undergraduates | N/A | Elevated distress, 30% |
| Marcotte & Lévesque 25 | Varying (literature
review) |
European students | N/A | Psychological distress, 21-31% |
| Bernaras et al. 5 | Various, CORE-OM | Spanish students | N/A | Clinical cut-off for various
distress scales: 47.4%; 63.8% |
| Rosenthal & Wilson 62 | Psychological
Distress Scale |
American undergraduates | Past 2 months | Clinically significant level of
distress, 9% |
| Pereira et al. 57 | Diagnosis | UK students | Ever | Mental health issue, 20% |
| Kerr 58 | Diagnosis | UK students | Ever | Mental health issue, 10% |
| Neale et al. 55 | Self-report | UK students | Ever | Mental health issue, 12% |