Megan J. Magier, Madelyn Law, Sarah Pennisi, Tanya Martini, Markus J Duncan, Hussain Chattha, Karen A Patte
{"title":"Final-year university students’ mental health and access to support as they prepared to graduate","authors":"Megan J. Magier, Madelyn Law, Sarah Pennisi, Tanya Martini, Markus J Duncan, Hussain Chattha, Karen A Patte","doi":"10.1080/28324765.2023.2252918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/28324765.2023.2252918","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research has examined postsecondary student mental health and transitions into university. However, research focused on the transition out of university is lacking. Challenges may be experienced differently among population subgroups. We examined the mental health and support access of university students approaching graduation and differences by various social positions. Survey data were collected from final-year undergraduate students that had registered to graduate at a Canadian university in 2021 and 2022. Chi-square and linear regression models analyzed relationships between sociodemographic characteristics and mental health outcomes. Open-ended questions assessed barriers to accessing support and desired supports. Sexual/gender diverse students reported greater depressive symptoms than cisgender heterosexual students. Students without stressful childhood or current financial situations had lower depression and anxiety scores than their peers that experienced stressful financial situations, respectively. Formal support was more commonly accessed off-campus than on-campus in the past year. Differences in past-year support access were found by gender/sexuality, financial stress, age and race/ethnicity. Availability/scheduling was the most reported barrier to accessing campus-based services. Financial concerns were a common challenge and area for desired support. Implementing developmentally specific mental health support catering to the demands of this life period is necessary.","PeriodicalId":72633,"journal":{"name":"Cogent mental health","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135924329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The view from 4000 kilometers: An editorial statement for <i>Cogent Mental Health</i>","authors":"Jeffrey A. Hayes","doi":"10.1080/28324765.2023.2260055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/28324765.2023.2260055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72633,"journal":{"name":"Cogent mental health","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135149039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Élodie Audet, Pascale Dubois, Shelby Levine, Richard Koestner
{"title":"Autonomy support for the academic goal pursuit and subjective well-being of students with disabilities","authors":"Élodie Audet, Pascale Dubois, Shelby Levine, Richard Koestner","doi":"10.1080/28324765.2023.2255040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/28324765.2023.2255040","url":null,"abstract":"Students with disabilities often face greater challenges flourishing in postsecondary academic settings and achieving academic goals than their peers. Over an academic semester, 234 university students with registered disabilities (75.60% female, Mage = 22.30) were recruited to participate in a three-wave, longitudinal study. The present research utilized a Self-Determination Theory framework to examine how perceiving autonomy support (i.e., listening, providing choices and options) from close others related to psychological need satisfaction (i.e., feelings of autonomy, competence, and relatedness), progress on academic goals, and subjective well-being. Specifically, the results suggest that autonomy support was significantly related to psychological need satisfaction, goal progress, and subjective well-being. Results also suggest the relation of autonomy support to subjective well-being was mediated by psychological need satisfaction and goal progress. The findings have broader implications regarding the academic success and well-being of students with disabilities and aid in understanding how close others can provide meaningful support despite the difficulties encountered. Practical ramifications and directions for future research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":72633,"journal":{"name":"Cogent mental health","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136071804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cogent mental healthPub Date : 2023-07-11eCollection Date: 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/28324765.2023.2231497
Joshua B Grubbs, Shane W Kraus
{"title":"Sports wagering in the context of addictive disorders: results from a census-matched U.S. sample.","authors":"Joshua B Grubbs, Shane W Kraus","doi":"10.1080/28324765.2023.2231497","DOIUrl":"10.1080/28324765.2023.2231497","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent legal cases, technological advances, and sports league administrative decisions have provided unprecedented access to various forms of sports wagering across the United States (U.S.). Such increases in access have highlighted gaps in current understanding of how sports wagering is related to a range of addictive behaviors. The present work explores how diverse forms of sports wagering are related to engagement in and symptoms of addiction to a variety of behaviors and substances. Participants were recruited by YouGov Opinion polling and taken from two U.S. samples. Sports-wagering habits, substance use patterns, and self-reported symptoms of addiction to behaviors and substances were assessed. Across behaviors measured, sports-wagering was consistently associated with greater engagement in the use of diverse substances and potentially addictive behaviors such as gaming and pornography use. Self-reported symptoms of addiction to such substances and behaviors were consistently and uniquely related to greater reports of sports wagering, except for traditional fantasy sport play. Collectively, these results suggest that sports wagering behaviors, especially traditional sports wagering, e-sports wagering, and taking part in daily fantasy leagues are often linked to a wide variety of impulsive or at-risk behaviors and may be seen as an indicator of more broad concerns with risky behaviors.</p>","PeriodicalId":72633,"journal":{"name":"Cogent mental health","volume":"6 1","pages":"2231497"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12442984/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84796547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cogent mental healthPub Date : 2023-05-21eCollection Date: 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/28324765.2023.2211633
Natalie R Pottschmidt, Rebecca A Janis, Brett E Scofield, Alaina L Cummins, Dever M Carney, Katherine A Davis, J Ryan Kilcullen, Hongjun Michael Tan, Louis G Castonguay, Benjamin D Locke
{"title":"Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on treatment-seeking college students.","authors":"Natalie R Pottschmidt, Rebecca A Janis, Brett E Scofield, Alaina L Cummins, Dever M Carney, Katherine A Davis, J Ryan Kilcullen, Hongjun Michael Tan, Louis G Castonguay, Benjamin D Locke","doi":"10.1080/28324765.2023.2211633","DOIUrl":"10.1080/28324765.2023.2211633","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has been ubiquitous and pervasive, there is still little known about how specific groups may be impacted differently. Epidemiological survey research suggests that college students are at heightened risk for negative mental health effects of the pandemic, but most research on collegiate mental health during the pandemic has been focused on the general student body and limited in scope. The current research presents two studies examining impacts of COVID-19 in a large clinical sample of treatment-seeking college students, using data collected through the Center for Collegiate Mental Health. First, examining baseline psychological symptom distress in a pre-COVID and a COVID cohort, few differences were seen between the two groups. Second, for students seeking counseling after COVID-19 onset, reported negative impacts of the pandemic across life areas are presented, along with their associations with psychological symptoms, demographics, and reasons for seeking treatment. Students who reported a negative impact of COVID-19 on their mental health were more likely to present with increased baseline symptom distress. Furthermore, students with minoritized identities were often disproportionately negatively impacted across life areas assessed. Recommendations for clinicians, counseling centers, and institutions are highlighted based on this examination.</p>","PeriodicalId":72633,"journal":{"name":"Cogent mental health","volume":"31 1","pages":"2211633"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12443022/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75312511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cogent mental healthPub Date : 2023-04-17eCollection Date: 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/28324765.2023.2169583
Bethany A Rallis, Justin Petrovich, Brett E Scofield, Sangsun Kim, Benjamin D Locke
{"title":"A comparison of treatment response between college students with and without suicide risk at university counseling centers.","authors":"Bethany A Rallis, Justin Petrovich, Brett E Scofield, Sangsun Kim, Benjamin D Locke","doi":"10.1080/28324765.2023.2169583","DOIUrl":"10.1080/28324765.2023.2169583","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aims to explore the effect of University Counseling Center (UCC) treatment in a nationally representative sample of 101,354 college students with suicide risk variables (i.e. recent suicidal ideation (SI), recent SI and history of suicide attempts (SA), history of SA) as compared to those without suicide risk seeking services from 160 UCCs. Time Varying Effects Modeling was used to assess changes in distress level and SI over the course of up to 20 sessions of treatment among students with the aforementioned risk variables compared to those without. Reductions in distress and SI were observed in all students with the most significant change seen in the first five sessions. Students with recent SI and no history of attempts seem to achieve comparable amount of improvement to students without suicide risks. Presence of suicide attempt history appears to limit the prognosis. These results entail that students with a history of SA whose levels of risk and chronicity of symptoms may require more treatment and be better managed with alternative forms of treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":72633,"journal":{"name":"Cogent mental health","volume":"430 1","pages":"2169583"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12443023/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75078553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cogent mental healthPub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1080/28324765.2023.2240375
Marc Rigatti, Brittany Chapman, Peter R Chai, David Smelson, Kavita Babu, Stephanie Carreiro
{"title":"Digital Biomarker Applications Across the Spectrum of Opioid Use Disorder.","authors":"Marc Rigatti, Brittany Chapman, Peter R Chai, David Smelson, Kavita Babu, Stephanie Carreiro","doi":"10.1080/28324765.2023.2240375","DOIUrl":"10.1080/28324765.2023.2240375","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Opioid use disorder (OUD) is one of the most pressing public health problems of the past decade, with over eighty thousand overdose related deaths in 2021 alone. Digital technologies to measure and respond to disease states encompass both on- and off-body sensors. Such devices can be used to detect and monitor end-user physiologic or behavioral measurements (<i>i.e. digital biomarkers</i>) that correlate with events of interest, health, or pathology. Recent work has demonstrated the potential of digital biomarkers to be used as a tools in the prevention, risk mitigation, and treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD). Multiple physiologic adaptations occur over the course of opioid use, and represent potential targets for digital biomarker based monitoring strategies. This review explores the current evidence (and potential) for digital biomarkers monitoring across the spectrum of opioid use. Technologies to detect opioid administration, withdrawal, hyperalgesia and overdose will be reviewed. Driven by empirically derived algorithms, these technologies have important implications for supporting the safe prescribing of opioids, reducing harm in active opioid users, and supporting those in recovery from OUD.</p>","PeriodicalId":72633,"journal":{"name":"Cogent mental health","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10399596/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9959329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}