Psychiatric Morbidity in First-Year Undergraduates and the Effect of Brief Psychotherapeutic Intervention—A Pilot Study
- 1 July 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 149 (1) , 75-80
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.149.1.75
Abstract
Out of 1279 first-year undergraduates, two matched groups of students potentially vulnerable to psychological disturbance were identified. One was left to its own resources; the other was offered psychotherapeutic intervention, the effects of which were measured by the number of consultations with general practitioners, type of treatment and rate of withdrawal from university. Although the students in the intervention group had fewer consultations, lower General Health Questionnaire scores at follow-up, and fewer withdrew from university, due to the small numbers involved none of these differences achieved statistical significance.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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