College students -- Mental health

Abstract College and graduate students have been facing increasing stress levels in recent years, highlighting a need for stress management tools to help combat rising stress. A potential tool to examine is the multisensory environment (MSE), a room providing customizable sensory inputs, which has been shown in literature to be able to reduce feelings of stress. The project aimed to explore the effects of the MSE on self-reported perceived stress levels in college and graduate students and explore...

Abstract The relevance of this research is to help better understand the importance of resilience in occupational therapy graduate students and how complementary health approaches and integrative health (CHAIH) techniques can be used as strategies to build resilience for students’ personal lives and future professional experiences. The purpose was to explore the perceived feelings of resilience of first-year doctoral occupational therapy students before and after utilizing complementary health...

Abstract Mindfulness based practices have been shown to have positive impacts on overall wellbeing and resilience. The LGBTQ+ population faces unique challenges that puts them at risk for decreased mental health and decreased resilience. This project explored the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ students a private, non-profit university and their experiences with mindfulness-based practices and the impact on perceived resilience. This project utilized a narrative qualitative approach with semi...

Abstract Among graduate students there is a high level of stress and anxiety reported. Most of the literature focuses on techniques to combat stress and anxiety among students from nursing or medical professions, which does not accurately represent the healthcare field. The purpose of this research was to explore the effects of complementary health approaches on the experience of stress and anxiety among doctoral level occupational therapy (OTD) students. The following research question was...