2023-18: Check Your Stress: Automating Mental Health Screening for College Students

This presentation introduces a mental health screening kiosk with mobile application for student self-screening for mental health concerns. Research on mental health needs of college students and the growing need for intervention will be reviewed. Participants will engage in discussion to evolve the resource for use in other organizations.

Presenters:  Sharon J. Tucker, PhD, RN, CNS, FAAN; Haley Roberts, BS

Disclosures:  The presenters and planners have no conflict of interest or commercial support to disclose.  Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  41 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

Learning Outcome:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

• Summarize evidence regarding student mental health problems and limited resources on college campuses; and describe one e-tool that may expedite appropriate screening and referral.

Keywords:  College Students, Mental Health Screening, Access

Continuing Nursing Education:
0.5 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 32nd Annual Conference
Columbus, Ohio
Thursday, October 25, 2018
11:15am - 12:00pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  January 1, 2022