“College students are forming mental-health clubs — and they’re making a difference”
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1 min readNov 7, 2019
“researchers found that across 12 California colleges, such student-run efforts were associated with increased awareness of mental-health issues, reduced stigma and a rise in “helping behaviors.”
“Student-organized activities can improve college student mental-health attitudes and play an important role in improving the campus climate with respect to mental health,” said Bradley Stein, a senior physician policy researcher at the Rand Corp. and one of the paper’s lead authors.
He and his colleagues call the unmet need for mental-health care among students “a significant public health issue.””
