Amaro Pedro, Fonseca César, Pereira Anabela, Afonso Anabela, Barros Maria L, Serra Isaura, Marques Maria Fátima, Erfidan Cansu, Valente Sabina, Silva Revés, de Pinho Lara Guedes
Universidade de Évora, Comprehensive Health Research Centre (CHRC), LA_REAL, Évora, Portugal
Research Center on Health and Social Sciences (CARE), Polytechnic University of Portalegre, Portalegre, Portugal.
BMJ Open. 2025 Mar 22;15(3):e091297. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-091297.
The transition to higher education represents a demanding adaptation process with several socioeconomic factors involved. Mental health problems among university students have been worsening since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our objective is to create scientific evidence about the models of mental health-promoting interventions among higher education students applied in academic environments, as well as their effectiveness. We aim to synthesise the scientific evidence on the models of an intervention promoting mental health among university students applied in academic environments as well as their results.
A systematic review of the literature will be conducted. The research will be carried out using the EBSCO databases (CINAHL Complete, MEDLINE Complete, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection), PubMed and Scopus. The research strategy includes the following MeSH or similar terms: Universities [Mesh], Students [Mesh], Education [Mesh], Undergraduate, "Higher Education", Universit*, College, Student*; "Psychosocial intervention" [Mesh], "Non-pharmacological", "Intervention model*", "Mental health promotion program*", Intervention*; "Randomized Controlled Trial", RCT; "Mental health" [Mesh], Depression [Mesh], Anxiety [Mesh], "Stress, psychological" [Mesh], "Quality of life" [Mesh], and "Psychological well-being" [Mesh]. All experimental studies with mental health-promoting interventions for university students that were published between January 2017 and November 2024 in English will be eligible. Two independent reviewers will apply the inclusion and exclusion criteria, analyse the quality of the data and extract it for synthesis. Disagreements will be resolved by a third reviewer. All randomised controlled trial studies with interventions in university students and their efficacy (with means and SD) will be included in the systematic review of the literature. The standardised mean difference will be used as the effect size to standardise individual results. Sensitivity analysis, subgroup analysis and meta-regression will be conducted to explore the causes of heterogeneity and the robustness of the results.
Ethical approval is not required for this study as it is based on the review of previously published data. The results will be disseminated through publication in peer-reviewed journals and presentations at academic conferences, as well as in events organised by student associations.
CRD42022359608.
向高等教育的过渡是一个要求苛刻的适应过程，涉及多个社会经济因素。自新冠疫情开始以来，大学生中的心理健康问题一直在恶化。我们的目标是生成关于在学术环境中应用于高等教育学生的心理健康促进干预模式及其有效性的科学证据。我们旨在综合关于在学术环境中应用于大学生的心理健康促进干预模式及其结果的科学证据。
将进行文献的系统综述。研究将使用EBSCO数据库（护理学与健康领域数据库完整版、医学数据库完整版、心理学与行为科学合集）、PubMed和Scopus进行。研究策略包括以下医学主题词或类似术语：大学[医学主题词]、学生[医学主题词]、教育[医学主题词]、本科、“高等教育”、大学相关词汇、学院、学生相关词汇；“心理社会干预”[医学主题词]、“非药物”、“干预模式*”、“心理健康促进项目*”、干预*；“随机对照试验”、RCT；“心理健康”[医学主题词]、抑郁[医学主题词]、焦虑[医学主题词]、“心理压力”[医学主题词]、“生活质量”[医学主题词]以及“心理幸福感”[医学主题词]。2017年1月至2024年11月期间以英文发表的所有针对大学生的心理健康促进干预的实验研究都将符合条件。两名独立评审员将应用纳入和排除标准，分析数据质量并提取数据进行综合。分歧将由第三名评审员解决。所有针对大学生进行干预及其疗效（包括均值和标准差）的随机对照试验研究都将纳入文献的系统综述。标准化均数差值将用作效应量来标准化个体结果。将进行敏感性分析、亚组分析和元回归，以探讨异质性的原因和结果的稳健性。
由于本研究基于对先前发表数据的综述，因此无需伦理批准。研究结果将通过在同行评审期刊上发表、在学术会议上报告以及在学生协会组织的活动中进行传播。
PROSPERO注册号：CRD42022359608。
