There has been a growing demand for wellness services at universities across Canada in recent years. Brooke Linden, a post-doctoral fellow with the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Health Services and Policy Research Institute, believes that a lot of work still needs to be done to better understand the factors that affect students카지노 게임 컬렉션� mental health and wellbeing. That카지노 게임 컬렉션�s why she is developing a method for determining the most impactful stressors for students.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�If post-secondary institutions have a method of understanding the most frequent and severe stressors on their campuses, they may be able to make positive adjustments to mental health promotion and mental illness prevention programming that can improve students카지노 게임 컬렉션� overall mental wellbeing. But first, we need to improve our understanding of how to best target those efforts,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Dr. Linden.

Finding the stressors in student life

As part of her research, Dr. Linden has developed the Post-Secondary Student Stressors Index (PSSI) that categorizes the stressors that affect students in five areas: academics, the learning environment, the campus culture, interpersonal stressors, and personal stressors. The tool, delivered in an online survey format, invites students to evaluate stressors by both severity and frequency. This allows for the identification of 카지노 게임 컬렉션�low hanging fruit,카지노 게임 컬렉션� those frequent and severe stressors upon which schools can focus.

Dr. Linden developed the PSSI while earning her PhD at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s from the department of Public Health Sciences, piloting the tool on campus in Winter 2019. To determine the stressors among Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s students, Dr. Linden consulted with over 500 of them from across the university through focus groups, cognitive interviewing, and online surveys.

Now, as a post-doctoral research fellow at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s, she is working to evaluate the PSSI at other post-secondary institutions, with the goal of partnering with at least one university in each province. Dr. Linden is interested in determining whether different patterns of stress are observed due to factors like size, location, and campus type.

Choosing Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s

Dr. Linden first became interested in this work while pursuing her master카지노 게임 컬렉션�s degree in sociology. Her MA thesis focused on post-secondary student mental health, but she felt like she needed to adopt a more scientific method of understanding student stress.  

When exploring doctoral programs, she learned about the work of Heather Stuart, the Bell Canada Mental Health and Anti-Stigma Chair at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s. As a result, Dr. Linden decided to make the jump from the social sciences to the health sciences, enrolling in the in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s, which she believed would offer her the intellectually dynamic environment she was seeking in a graduate program.. After defending her Mini-Master카지노 게임 컬렉션�s project, Dr. Linden was promoted to the PhD program. She completed and defended her PhD thesis three years later, in fall 2019.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�Dr. Stuart and Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노게임사이트 have given me all the support I need to explore the issue of post-secondary student stress and mental health outcomes. I am confident that the PSSI is a well-validated tool that has the potential to make a positive impact on the current landscape of post-secondary student mental health at universities across Canada,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Dr. Linden.

Learn more about Dr. Linden카지노 게임 컬렉션�s research by reading her .

Dr. Linden is not the only researcher at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s investigating post-secondary student mental health. Anne Duffy, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, is currently researching the topic through a longitudinal study called U-Flourish. Read more about Dr. Duffy카지노 게임 컬렉션�s work on the Research@Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s website.