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Sun Young Park1, Nazanin Andalibi1, Yikai Zou1
1School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
JMIR Formative Research
|March 6, 2020
Summary
University students need tailored mental health support that considers life event severity, relationship building, and disclosure stigma. Understanding these needs is key for effective help-seeking interventions.
Area of Science:
- Mental Health Research
- Emerging Adult Psychology
- Health Technology Design
Background:
- Emerging adults experience significant stressors during life transitions.
- University students face unique challenges in maintaining mental well-being.
- Understanding student needs is crucial for designing effective mental health support systems.
Purpose of the Study:
- To understand how university students seek and receive mental well-being support.
- To identify design requirements for social and technical systems supporting student mental health.
- To address the specific needs of emerging adults during transitional periods.
Main Methods:
- Conducted semistructured interviews with 19 university students (graduate and undergraduate).
- Study took place at a large university in the Midwestern United States.
- Qualitative data explored lived experiences of mental well-being maintenance.
Main Results:
- Students require help aligned with perceived problem severity.
- Frequent life events necessitate continuous relationship rebuilding with support providers.
- Students navigate tensions between disclosure needs and stigma concerns.
- Key factors for mental well-being maintenance include time, audience, and disclosure.
Conclusions:
- Technology should deliver help considering student needs for timing, audience, and disclosure.
- Reconceptualizing help-seeking and receiving as a co-learning process is advocated.
- Empirical findings inform the design of better mental health support for university students.
Keywords:
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