Reading Time: 4 minutes Saint Louis University uses CampusWellâs digital content to engage with new students by promoting health and wellness from the first week of classes.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Your students are understandably stressed and many donât know the resources available to support them. We can help you communicate what you have and provide additional support for your studentsâ mental health and wellbeing.
Student wellness is an integral part of the college experience. When students practice healthy habits, they are in a better position to thrive academically and graduate. Plus, studies show that healthy behaviors formed during the college years tend to endure throughout life. This puts college administrators in a unique position to positively influence student health and wellness throughout college and beyond.
You may wonder what health and wellness topics college students are most concerned about. A 2019 study in the Journal of American College Health answers this question. Researchers from the University of Massachusetts conducted a needs assessment among a racially diverse group of students representing all undergraduate academic years. They wanted to know the self-perceived wellness-related concerns and behaviors of college students.
In their focus groups, they found four major areas that garnered the greatest engagement: nutrition, mental health, economics, and campus safety.
Students provided several suggestions that schools can realistically implement to help address their wellness concerns. Recommendations included:
As college administrators, itâs encouraging to know that students care about their healthâand that the wellness interventions they suggested are realistic. âColleges can successfully address priority health issues and develop solutions that are feasible and most likely to be utilized by students, when student input is sought and valued,â say the study authors.Â
CampusWell is proud to work with our client schools to ensure that students can access high-quality health resources that align with their main concerns and the solutions they most want to see. Our primary goal is to help schools positively impact studentsâ success and wellness by supporting their knowledge, skills, and behaviors.Â
A school-wide subscription to CampusWell goes beyond the content we provide. It allows your student affairs departments, such as your Health and Career Centers, Dining Services, Financial Aid Office, and Title IX Coordinator, to each have their own page on the student-focused platform. This can help keep students informed of news and updates, and direct them to available resources when they need them.
CampusWell is a versatile platform that helps make a multi-departmental wellness initiative simple, sustainable, and engaging. Using technology, high quality, research-based content, and proven marketing strategies, together with your existing assets, we deliver a campus-wide wellness platform that will positively impact your students and institution.
Quinn, B., El Ghaziri, M., Mangano, K. M., & Thind, H. K. (2019). Toward total student health: A qualitative pilot study. Journal of American College Health, 67(5): 391-396, DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2018.1484365
Quinn, B., El Ghaziri, M., Mangano, K. M., & Thind, H. K. (2019). Toward total student health: A qualitative pilot study. Journal of American College Health, 67(5): 391-396, DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2018.1484365
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