Mental health-related help seeking behavior among university students in Bataan, Philippines: Determinants and association with academic wellbeing

• Main Author: Ruaya, Ildebrando R., Jr.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2019
• Subjects: College students—Mental health—Philippines—Bataan; Help-seeking behavior; Mental and Social Health
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/6971
• Institution: De La Salle University

Mental health has significant impact on school outcome. Schools today face significant demands to inculcate ever-increasing knowledge, to prepare students with more complex vocational skills, to socialize children, amidst increasingly virtual communities, to interact with others appropriately and increasingly, and to maintain their health and safety. In these contexts, this study aims to describe the mental health seeking behavior of university students. Furthermore, the study works towards determining the relationships of help seeking behavior with psychological distress, mental health knowledge and social support. Moreover, the study determines the relationship of help seeking behavior with academic wellbeing. The research conducted the self-administered survey questionnaire to participants who are currently enrolled in the state university in Bataan. This study gathered 600 respondents from the six campus of the university and was able to gather findings that the psychological distress and mental health knowledge did not have a significant relationship to mental health-help seeking behavior of the students and academic wellbeing. The study also found out that social support significantly affects the mental health-help seeking behavior.