Study of Mental Health and Attitude towards Psychological Help Seeking among Management and Science University Students Raman Bavani A.P1, Sriperumbuduru Venkata Pavan Kumar2,*, Ghazi Hasanain Faisal3, Saleem Fazna4, Dalayi Nava Jyothi5 1Final BMS Student, Unit of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, International Medical School, Management and Science University, Shah Alam, Malaysia 2Senior Lecturer, Unit of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, International Medical School, Management and Science University, Shah Alam, Malaysia 3Senior Lecturer, Unit of Community Medicine, International Medical School, Management and Science University, Shah Alam, Malaysia 4Senior Lecturer, Unit of ENT, International Medical School, Management and Science University, Shah Alam, Malaysia 5Senior Lecturer, Unit of Anatomy, International Medical School, Management and Science University, Shah Alam, Malaysia *Corresponding Author: Dr. Venkata Pavan Kumar Sriperumbuduru, Senior Lecturer, Unit of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Management and Science University, Shah Alam, Malaysia Phoine: +60 109734525 Email: drpawansp@gmail.com
Online published on 21 February, 2019. Abstract This research is on ‘study of the mental health and attitude towards psychological help-seeking among MSU students’. Students of MSU need psychological help will be analyzed. Next is which gender seeks for more help and which gender is having good health is found out. Another point is why mental health is not taught as a subject which the students need most because of everyday stress life. A cross-sectional study was conducted with a random sample of 200 students among MSU students. 100 male and 100 female are divided equally. The questionnaire has four parts which included personal details, knowledge on mental health, the attitude of mental health and last part is psychological help-seeking. The data were analysed using Microsoft Excel version 2010 via the table of percentage and frequency. The overall study stated that students having poor knowledge of mental health which is 44% (N=88) and very few has good knowledge on that which is 21%. Besides that, the attitude of mental health is analysed and it is shown that students having poor attitude level which is 47% (N = 94 out of 200). At last part which is psychological help-seeking among MSU students is 67% of them seeking for help whereas majority is female said yes for help. As a conclusion, knowledge and attitude on mental health are very poor among MSU students. Therefore, students seek psychological help. Top Keywords Mental health, Psychological help-seeking, Student awareness. Top |