College Course About Flourishing and Students' Mental Health During SARS-CoV-2

Matthew J Hirshberg; Blake A Colaianne; Mark T Greenberg; Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas; Richard J Davidson; David Germano; John D Dunne; Robert W Roeser

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.44845

College Course About Flourishing and Students' Mental Health During SARS-CoV-2

JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Nov 4;7(11):e2444845. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.44845.

Authors

Matthew J Hirshberg¹, Blake A Colaianne², Mark T Greenberg², Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas³, Richard J Davidson¹, David Germano⁴, John D Dunne¹, Robert W Roeser²

Affiliations

¹ Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
² Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
³ School of Education and Human Development, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
⁴ Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

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Plain language summary

This cohort study examines the association of a college course designed to strengthen skills for mental health taken in 2018 or 2019 with measures of anxiety, depression, and flourishing during the early months of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in 2020.

Grants and funding

K01 MH130752/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States