Promoting International Students’Mental Health Unmet Needs:An Integrative Review

作     者：Carmen Hei Man Shek Sally Wai Chi Chan Michelle Anne Stubbs Regina Lai Tong Lee 

作者机构：School of Nursing and MidwiferyCollege of HealthMedicine and WellbeingUniversity of NewcastleCallaghanNSW 2308Australia President’s OfficeTung Wah CollegeHong KongChina The Nethersole School of NursingThe Chinese University of Hong KongShatinNew TerritoriesHong KongChina 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Mental Health Promotion》 (国际心理健康促进杂志（英文）)

年 卷 期：2024年第26卷第11期

页      面：905-924页

学科分类：0402[教育学-心理学(可授教育学、理学学位）] 040203[教育学-应用心理学] 04[教育学] 

主　　题：International students challenges coping mental health needs 

摘      要：Background:There are increasing concerns about the mental health needs of international *** studies report that international students experience additional challenges and higher levels of stress compared to domestic *** integrative review aimed to identify perceived stressors,coping strategies and factors that contributed to accessing mental health services of international ***:A systematic search was performed between January 2010 and December 2023 using PubMed,CINAHL,ProQuest,the Cochrane Library,Scopus and PsycINFO databases.A manual search was also performed that included reference lists of included articles;data was extracted and reviewed by three reviewers.A total of 21 studies were included in this review with a total of 4442 international students recruited,with ages between 17 to 43 *** studies reported international students’gender,there were more females(n=2205)than males(n=1022).Ethnicity was reported in 18 *** included Asia,Europe,Latin America,North America,South America,Africa,the Middle East and Pacific *** review adopted Whittemore and Knafl’s five-stage approach,with specific steps for problem identification,literature search,data evaluation,data analysis,and ***:The Health Belief Model was used to explain relationships among independent and dependent variables and guide the findings of this *** identified progressive themes emerged including Theme 1:understanding cultural variations with perceived stress;Theme 2:coping strategies in dealing with stress and challenges in the new environment;and Theme 3:perceived threats and stress affecting how international students perceived barriers and benefits to access counselling support services and mental health *** integrative review presents an overview of mental health needs and factors contributing to the mental health and well-being of international students via the inclusion of studies with differen