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Engagement With Personalized Feedback for Emotional Distress Among College Students at Elevated Suicide Risk
Adam G Horwitz1, Victor Hong1, Daniel Eisenberg2
1University of Michigan Medical School.
Behavior Therapy
|March 1, 2022
Summary
Personalized feedback (PF) helps engage college students with depression and suicidal ideation who avoid mental health services. Those with higher depression scores and privacy concerns, plus sexual minority students, were more likely to use PF.
Area of Science:
- Mental Health
- Psychology
- Public Health
Background:
- Rising rates of depression and suicidal ideation among college students.
- Many students with significant symptoms do not seek mental health services.
- Personalized feedback (PF) interventions offer objective, norm-referenced data on symptoms.
Purpose of the Study:
- To identify factors associated with reviewing PF reports on emotional distress.
- Focus on college students at high suicide risk not receiving mental health treatment.
- Examine sociodemographic, clinical, and treatment-seeking predictors of PF engagement.
Main Methods:
- Study included 1,673 college students screening positive for elevated suicide risk.
- Participants were not receiving mental health treatment.
- Analysis of factors influencing the review of personalized feedback reports.
Main Results:
- Higher depression scores correlated with greater PF engagement.
- Students citing privacy/stigma as treatment barriers were more likely to review PF.
- Sexual minority students showed higher PF engagement than heterosexual students.
Conclusions:
- PF interventions show potential for engaging students with higher clinical needs.
- PF may be effective for students hesitant to seek in-person mental health care.
- Further research needed on PF's role in isolated or multi-tiered intervention strategies.
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