U.K. University Students Four Times More Likely To Seek Telephone-Based Mental Health Advice

University students in the United Kingdom (U.K.) are four times more likely to seek mental health advice on a telephone-based service than from a counselor. About 28% said they would prefer to use a telephone-based service to receive well-being advice. No information about actual numbers seeking face-to-face counseling were provided.

These findings were reported in “Upwardly mobile: Can phone messaging plug the gap in student mental health support?” by Unihealth Foundation (Unihealth), a U.K.-based health and behavior change communications company. Researchers from Unihealth surveyed 1,027 first- and second-year university students . . .