{"id":1097,"date":"2014-04-17T15:25:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T20:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2014-04-24T12:28:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T17:28:48","slug":"can-the-internet-improve-mental-health-for-university-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/can-the-internet-improve-mental-health-for-university-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the internet improve mental health for university students?<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A randomized study on 1047 university students showed that online interventions can be effective at helping them cope with mental health disorders.University is a time when many students are at risk from common mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders and alcohol and drug abuse.<\/p>\n<p>The study showed that students at high risk of mental disorders were less depressed, less anxious and has improved self-esteem after following an online intervention.\u00a0The study helped students identify strengths and build upon their coping strategies.<\/p>\n<p>However, many students didn\u2019t complete the process, which underlines the difficulty of engaging university students in a mental health intervention.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0093621\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>PLOS One<\/em><i>\u00a0<\/i>on\u00a0<strong>April 15, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iop.kcl.ac.uk\/staff\/profile\/default.aspx?go=11872\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Musiat<\/a>, King&#8217;s College London, United Kingdom<\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chu-sainte-justine.org\/research\/chercheurs.aspx?ID_nouveau=29022663&amp;id_page=2432&amp;id_menu=2429\" target=\"_blank\">Patricia Conrod<\/a>, University of Montr\u00e9al, Quebec<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A randomized study on 1047 university students showed that online interventions can be effective at helping them cope with mental health disorders.University is a time when many students are at risk from common mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders and alcohol and drug abuse. The study showed that students at high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[282,51,53,1000],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-education","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-hH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}