Historically, students from black colleges and universities and mainly black institutions are more pleased and on average, mainly than white institutions and college students, feel more and more than themselves. New Report The United Nigro College Fund was launched.
The report, “Community, Culture and Care: A proportional agency of mental health among HBCU and PBI students,” use the results of two years of data from the study of healthy brain, which is a major annual survey of college students across the country, so that the researchers and PBCU students believe.
“HBCU has a long tradition of being a centers for virtue and educational success centers.” University of Michigan’s Department of Health and Health Acquisition. “But this work also highlights that HBCUS is far more than that. They are creating an atmosphere of confirmation and relationship and help.
In the study of HBCU and PBI students, 45 % of the flourish scale showed positive mental health, a series of eight statements – such as “I am a good person and live a good life”. The three statements made by students in the sample “I am a good person and live a good life,” “I actively contribute to the happiness and well -being of others,” and “I am confident and capable of activities that are important to me.”
Meanwhile, usually only 36 % of college students and 38 % of black students in PWIS indicated positive mental health. HBCU and PBI students reported widespread anxiety, depression and low food malfunction than college students.
HBCU and PBI students also showed maximum sense of belonging to the campus, 83 % agree with the statement that “I consider myself part of the campus community,” while 73 % of all healthy minds said the same. High number of HBCU and PBI students reported to be close contact with others on campuses. 54 % said they have a social group or community where they feel they are concerned, and 60 % said they have friends with whom I can share my thoughts and feelings. ”
Serena Butler Johnson, a public HBCU, the director of the Counseling Center at Columbia District University, said the results are especially noteworthy because mental health professionals are warning of isolation and isolation, which has been warning of isolation and isolation. Associated with physical disadvantagesLike a growing risk of stroke. Former President Joe Biden’s US surgeon, Vivek Murthy, in 2023, declared isolation as a public health emergency, calling the community and its “anti -dots” contacted.
Butler Johnson also noted that these results are linked to the black psychology field, which focuses on the lives, history and experiences of black people.
“The black psychology emphasizes the communities, communication, rituals, traditions, which are a lot of a lot of HBCU experience, whether it be returning or steps or bands,” he said. “Generally, the concept of black psychology is mirror in these results.”
Although these results did not necessarily show the cause of the relationship between high rates of relationship and other positive results of HBCU and PBI students. Previous research Higher education has added a sense of success and mental fitness.
Mental health concerns
Despite most positive results, the sample reported a high rate of suicide theory between HBCU and PBI students (17 %) compared to the population of ordinary students. It also highlighted two areas of tension for many HBCU and PBI students: financial instability and, despite feeling high rate of their campus, loneliness. Researchers suffered similar tensions (56 %) from national samples (55 %) but higher rates of financial stress. 52 % said that compared to 43 % of the national sample, they always put pressure on financial matters.
Butler Johnson said HBCUS should take additional steps “outside the four walls of the therapy room” to solve these issues. In the UDC, it includes a new office for advocacy and helping students, which contributes to a consultation center to financing students and connecting case management. The UDC Counseling Center also offers informal, non -clinical group meetings where students can leave and talk to others, do not need any paperwork, deal with loneliness.
Another search: HBCU and PBI students are less likely to get mental health support than black students and most students in PWIS suffering from mental health challenges. The report states that this may be due to institutions that have low resources, which can lead to less availability of physicians on the campus. The understanding of going to therapy can also be a factor. However, only 8 % of the respondents said they would do something else to get treatment. This is 11 percent higher than the national sample.
Patterson said these results show that HBCUs and PBIS are doing incredibly successful work -supporters, such as obstacles such as lack of resources and concerns about notoriety. And while he said that many HBCU students can benefit from traditional consultation, the results show that it is important to admit that the HBCU campus is “not the most” mental health support therapy.
“It is really important for all students to know and provide numerous options,” he said.
