Evaluating the impact of Archway: a personalized program for 1st year student success and mental health and wellbeing
| العنوان: | Evaluating the impact of Archway: a personalized program for 1st year student success and mental health and wellbeing |
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| المؤلفون: | Denver M. Y. Brown, Sean Van Koughnett, James MacKillop, Matthew Y. W. Kwan, Sean Beaudette, Catharine Munn |
| المصدر: | BMC Public Health, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2021) BMC Public Health |
| بيانات النشر: | BMC, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Program evaluation, medicine.medical_specialty, Canada, 020205 medical informatics, Universities, Compromise, media_common.quotation_subject, 02 engineering and technology, Health Promotion, Emotional Adjustment, 03 medical and health sciences, Study Protocol, Emerging adulthood, 0302 clinical medicine, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, medicine, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Longitudinal Studies, Students, Qualitative Research, media_common, Medical education, business.industry, Wellbeing, 4. Education, Public health, lcsh:Public aspects of medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Social environment, COVID-19, lcsh:RA1-1270, Achievement, Mental health, Health promotion, Transition, Support program, Biostatistics, business, Qualitative research, Program Evaluation |
| الوصف: | Background First-year students entering postsecondary education must navigate a new and complex academic and social environment. Research indicates that this transition and developmental period can be challenging and stressful – academically, emotionally and socially – and that mental health and wellbeing can be compromised. Additionally, mental health disorders can also compromise students’ ability to successfully navigate this transition. In the COVID-19 pandemic, the incoming 2020 cohort of first-year students face heightened and new challenges. Most will have spent the conclusion of high school learning virtually, in quarantine, in an uncertain and difficult time, and are then experiencing their first year of university while living, learning and socializing off-campus, virtually and remotely. In response to COVID-19 and with an appreciation of the considerable stresses students face generally and particularly in 2020-21, and the potential effects on mental health and wellbeing, McMaster University, a mid-sized research intensive university with approximately 30,000 students, has developed an innovative program to support students, called Archway. This initiative has been developed to help to prevent and to intervene early to address common transitional issues students experience that can influence mental health and wellbeing, with the ultimate goals of increasing student connectedness, supports, and retention. Methods The current study will use a mixed-method design to evaluate Archway and gain a better understanding of the transition into first-year postsecondary for students who engage and participate in Archway at various levels. The study will not only help to determine the effect of this program for students during COVID-19, but it will help us to better understand the challenges of this transition more broadly. Discussion Findings have the potential to inform future efforts to support students and protect their mental health and wellbeing through the use of virtual and remote platforms and mechanisms that meet their increasingly diverse needs and circumstances. |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1471-2458 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::49fdc6d6ee2eeadfba99347c26f66217Test https://doaj.org/article/18292d99b5a246d9955ecb1238e11b11Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....49fdc6d6ee2eeadfba99347c26f66217 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14712458 |
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