The Northern Mental Health Nursing Qualitative Research Forum meets three times a year to connect Mental Health Nurse researchers interested in, and conducting, qualitative research, methodologies and innovations. If you wish to be added to the mailing list, please contact KMWright1@uclan.ac.uk.
The following session was recorded at their second event on Thursday 13 October 2022. With thanks to Prof Karen Wright and Dr James Turner for organising the event and the invitation to support with recording the sessions.
Title: Student mental health and the chamber of secrets
Author: Lyndsey Rosson, UoS & UCLan PhD student
Over recent years, there has been a growing interest in the health and wellbeing of university students (Aceijas, Waldhausl, Lambert, Cassar & Bello-Corassa, 2016). Around 1 in every 125 students has disclosed a mental health problem to their University (Equality in Higher Education, 2015). However, there remains a lack of robust data that accurately depicts the status of mental ill-health among the student population and no definitive gold standard procedure available to use as a model to help to address this problem.
This study explores the lived experience of accessing support to deal with a mental health problem whilst at university to discover what having a mental health problem at university is like and how the person has experienced the support offered.
Participants were recruited by wellbeing staff approaching students from their past and current caseloads and posters advertising the study. To be eligible, students needed to be currently engaged in the service or have experienced the service and were still a student at the HEI (Higher Education Institution).
Interviews were conducted from a phenomenological perspective to illuminate the lived experience. Three themes were illuminated that was specifically linked with temporality: pre-encounter, encounter and post-encounter. The lived experiences were evaluated and found that the build-up to seeking support was pivotal for most participants and how their access to help differed yet had similar outcomes.
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Credits:
#mhTV Presenters: Vanessa Gilmartin, Nicky Lambert & David Munday
#NorQual Leads: Dr Jim Turner & Prof Karen Wright
#NorQual Presenter: Lyndsey Rosson
Theme music: Tony Gillam
Production & Editing: David Munday
