UNILIFE

During the time spent at college, students make important shifts in their lifestyle behaviors. These shifts include increased sedentary behavior and decreased physical activity. These factors, along with poor dietary and sleep habits, mixed with increased substance use can be a precursor to poor mental health. While there is existing evidence of the above factors associations with poor mental health, the literature is from a single timepoint with low cultural representation that focuses on a very limited subset of mental health profiles. By using a more thorough set of questionnaires from a large range of mental health profiles and accessing a broad population from around the world, UNILIFE-M has the potential to understand how changing lifestyle behaviors affect multiple mental health profiles in college students during their college years. With this information, mental health centers across campuses could better serve and reduce mental health risks in college students.