Students May Stop Mental Health Medication
Posted on: Monday, 25 August 2008, 15:01 CDT
U.S. researchers want to know if college students taking psychiatric medications experiment with stopping their medication while away at college.
Case Western Reserve University researchers in Cleveland said that the National American College and University Health Services reports that about 20 percent of the students visiting counseling centers are on prescribed medications for a range of mental illnesses from depression, bipolar disorder to attention deficit disorder.
Researchers are beginning a two-year campus-based study, which will also contribute to a larger international project, under the direction of McGill University in Montreal investigating the social and cultural differences associated with taking psychiatric medication among college students in Japan, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Jerry Floersch and colleges at Case Western Reserve University are examining not only how the students taking psychiatric drugs are managing the transition from home to college, but what faculty members do when students disclose they have a mental illness.
The researchers will conduct a quantitative survey of 120 undergraduates and conduct intensive qualitative interviews with 15 first-year and 15 third-year students about their experiences with their illnesses and management of medications over a two-year period.
Source: United Press International
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