Mental Health Conditions of State University Students

Human beings are complex creatures. Caring for one’s mental health condition is arguably the most compassionate and demanding work anyone can undertake. The increasing rates of suicide, depression, and other mental health conditions triggered the global call for mental health promotion and awareness. Difficulty in the part of mental health providers to extract the cognitive processing of emotions, and the rising of mental health concerns, are interlinked factors seen that ignite the quest for an answer in this study. Purposive sampling was used to determine respondents who have mental health conditions. DSM5 Cross-Cutting Symptoms Measure-Adult was employed to measure the mental health conditions, while answers were validated with the use of interview guide. Moreover, mixed-method was the employed research design. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. With the use five point scale instrument indicating scores of 0= none, 1=slight, 2 =mild, 3 =moderate and 4 =severe, results showed that the majority of the respondents have mild depression, mild anger, mild anxiety, slight suicidal ideation, slight psychosis, and substance use. Specifically, males are troubled with sleep concerns, experience more episodes of psychosis and resorted more on substance use. Among the year levels it was with fourth year students who experience somatic symptoms, and substance use was common among Bachelor of Industrial Technology students, while the graduating students are experiencing from several somatic symptoms. Qualitative responses from seven participants supplied the theme “stress effects†as attributes of mental health conditions.