Psychological nursing intervention and investigation of mental health status of minority undergraduate students

Abstract

Objective To study the mental health status of minority undergraduate students and explore the effect of the nursing intervention on the students with mental problems.Methods Totals of 300 minority students were investigated with the China College Student Mental Health Scale 0CCSMHS),then the students with mental health problems were evaluated with the Symptom Check List 90(SCL-90).Factors of SCL-90 of students before and after the nursing intervention were observed and compared with the norm.Results Among 300 students,36 students(12％ ) were found with the mental health problems,the score of somatization,anxiety,depression,obsession and impulse of new students were significantly higher than that of the norm 0P ＜ 0.05).For the students with the mental health problems,before the nursing intervention,students' score of somatization,anxiety,depression,mental illness were significantly higher than that of the norm (t =- 0.112 87,- 0.095 39,-0.123 24,- 0.081 19,- 0.041 36,respectively; P ＜ 0.05 ),after the nursing intervention,factors such as somatization,depression,obsession,anxiety,hostility,terror,paranoia,mental illness and impulse of students were significantly improved (t =- 0.158 69,0.001 63,0.029 37,0.039 14,0.013 04,0.009 79,0.010 61,respectively;P ＜0.05),and except the anxiety factor,there was no significantly difference in others factors between students with mental health problems and the norm(t =- 0.012 77,P ＜ 0.05 ).Conclusions Application different psychological nursing intervention methods can improve the status of mental health of minority undergraduate students. Key words: Minority gruops; Students; Psychological nursing; Mental health