Along with the Michigan Public Health University, the United Negro College Foundation, with black colleges and universities (HBCU) with black students (HBCUS), have better mental health results in other institutions.
In a joint network with a healthy network, the report entitled “Community, Culture and Care: HBCU and PBI Students” in the report, 45% of HBCU students are developing compared to 36% of national college students. With the answers from 2,504 students from 16 different HBCU, 83% of the national scale was a sense of unity in the national scale. Students in HBCU campuses also showed the substance exploitation compared to anxiety, food disorders and national average.
Lead researcher and ph.d. Michigan Public Health University Health Behavior and Health District Department Student, Akilah Patterson, negotiations on mental health occur more often. “In conversations about the mental health and well-being, HBCU students are able to raise their unique experiences, strengths and problems,” said Patterson.
“Sounds of black students in the college student’s well-being, the sounds of black students should not be heard, but also supported. This research paves the way to move more.”
Eight statements were made from the scale of the memory Higher in“I’m a good man and live a good life,” the respondent was used to determine the “flourish” that he was mentally flourished. Three most common phrases “I am a good person and I live a good life,” he said.
However, other components of HBCU students show red flags. As for stress factors, the financial concerns are listed in the list, the participants have labeled more than half of the “always” or “often” as stressful. As a result, 78% of financial stressful students have experienced mental health problems than 26% of financial stable students.
More than 25% of the material struggling has also expressed suicide thoughts. Despite the worried numbers, HBCUs are trying to solve financial loads, expanding mental health sources in the town and develop strategies to develop relations between students and faculties. “HBCU has a long tradition of excellence and academic achievement centers,” said Patterson.
“But this work also stressed that there is more than HBCUS. They cultivate confirmation and support environment.”
