Canadian undergraduate students’ mental health literacy and its influence on psychological distress and help-seeking behaviour
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Psychological distress (PD) among Canadian undergraduate students continues to be a prevalent issue. Developing an enhanced understanding of the relationship between mental health literacy (MHL), PD and help-seeking behavior (HSB) can provide researchers, educators, and clinicians with additional insight as to what knowledge should be taught and reiterated to undergraduate students that will support their mental health. While many studies across the globe have consistently reported significant positive relationships between MHL and HSB, there remains mixed findings regarding the relationship between MHL and PD. The purpose of this study was to explore Canadian undergraduate students’ degree of MHL, and the influence it has on their levels of PD and HSB. While previous Canadian studies have explored students’ MHL, this is the first Canadian study that has examined the relationships between MHL, PD and HSB. A total of 335 participants completed an online survey. More than half of the students reportedly experienced heightened levels anxiety, depression, and stress. The results suggested that Canadian undergraduate students demonstrate adequate levels of MHL and that some attributes of MHL have significant relationships with PD and HSB. Further research is warranted to strengthen our understanding of the influence of MHL on PD and HSB.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".