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Default May 07, 2019 at 09:50 PM
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There seems to be a lot out there on the topic you are interested in.

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A number of quantitative and qualitative studies have examined why young people experiencing mental health problems or psychological distress do not utilize mental health services. A key barrier to professional help seeking that has received the most attention is stigma toward mental illness and treatment. In fact, stigma has been declared as a pervasive barrier to the effective treatment of mental health problems by two federal initiatives—the Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health23 and the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health.24 The recognition of stigma as a major deterrent to help seeking on college campuses has been supported by a number of studies demonstrating its negative effect on attitudes toward and willingness to seek professional help as well as students’ perceptions of need of health services.25-27 Further, of particular interest to this study, concerns about stigma predicted lower intentions to seek professional help among students who were specifically asked to rate how likely they would seek professional help if they experienced suicidal thoughts.15

It is important to point out that while stigma has consistently emerged in the literature as one of the most prominent help-seeking barriers (for review, see Gulliver and colleagues28), new data from the Healthy Minds study, a nationally representative study of mental health and help seeking on college campuses, suggests that a majority of students who did not seek treatment had low stigma and positive beliefs about treatment.29 There is additional evidence suggesting that specific domains of stigma, such as perceived public stigma (perception of others’ attitudes), do not influence actual use of services among college students.25,30,31

Self-reported Barriers to Professional Help Seeking Among College Students at Elevated Risk for Suicide
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Default May 08, 2019 at 07:19 AM
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I think it is fine to get ideas and bounce off ideas on peers, including online. But definitely discuss the study with your academic advisors as they will be more familiar with actual research methods, what is feasible and what would fall in the scope of such a project. Even if it is formally allowed, I personally would refrain from using members of an internet forum though, especially one like this where people tend to have strong agendas and you may also be biased based on your extensive prior interactions with the members.

One thing about undergrad research that can be very good to keep in mind is to make it focused and relatively simple, also feasible to complete within the short period of time allocated for it (so you can actually present some conclusions). Specificity was mentioned above, I would add to study a phenomenon that is relatively straightforward and not too mysterious/complex. If the study subject population is given and it's not that you assemble it based on your research question, I would probably look for questions that are especially relevant to this population. Something like how do students cope with academic stress already, where are the specific areas they struggle and could use more external help (including counseling/therapy), what keeps them from utilizing that help? If it is a diverse undergrad population, asking how these patterns and perceptions relate to their specific field of study (major) could also be informative. I don't think it is an issue for an undergrad project if there are already studies addressing similar things - it can actually be an advantage because you can compare and discuss results. Researchers also often conduct similar kinds of studies on different populations to ask how the characteristics of that population affect the outcome. Also, if you want to study perceptions regarding mental health treatments but the majority of the subjects never had any, they are unlikely to have sophisticated perceptions and opinions - another reason to keep it simple and focused.

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Default May 17, 2019 at 06:23 AM
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I'm not sure if it has been mentioned that adjustment disorder is a frequent diagnosis of people away from home for the first time, and due to its nature, it goes away on its own.

Since a lot of psychotherapy research is done on this population, I believe findings are poorly extrapolated. So I hope you are aware of the nature of adjustment disorder and how it can impact this type of research.

I forgot to mention earlier that since there is so much out there on these subjects, maybe you can find an unanswered question or address an pattern of unknown origin to add a slant to it to make it more interesting. My note about a lot out there already wasn't to discourage you from looking into the topic, so that should not be inferred from my previous post.

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