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- Title
Evaluating Peer-Peer Depression Outreach: College Students Helping Peers Approach and Respond to Students in Crisis.
- Authors
Funkhouser, Carter J.; Zakriski, Audrey L.; Spoltore, Janet Dee
- Abstract
This study evaluated the effects of a peer-peer depression outreach program for college students (Depression OutReach Alliance [DORA] College Program). Fifty-six college students participated in either the DORA program or a control program and completed pretest, posttest, and follow-up assessments. These assessments measured responses to and desired social distance from an at-risk male peer, self-stigma and perceived social stigma associated with psychological help-seeking, knowledge of depression and suicide, and crisis response skills. Results indicated that DORA participants reported improved crisis response skills, t(50) = 2.55, p = .014, d = .71, desired less social distance from the distressed peer, t(26) = 3.07, p = .005, d = -.60, and perceived there to be less social stigma related to seeking psychological help after the intervention, t(26) = 2.71, p = .012, d = -.52. Implications for college student depression and suicide outreach are discussed.
- Subjects
MENTAL depression; THERAPEUTICS; PSYCHOLOGY of college students; OUTREACH programs; PEER communication; PEER counseling of students
- Publication
Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research, 2017, Vol 22, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
2164-8204
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24839/2325-7342.JN22.1.19