Ep. 27: The Healthy Minds Study’s Winter/Spring 2021: Pandemic’s effects on mental health, college student loneliness, and other findings

Co-Principal Investigators of the Healthy Minds Network, Sarah Ketchen Lipson, PhD, EdM, and Daniel Eisenberg, PhD, discuss most recent data from the Winter/Spring 2021 Healthy Minds Study, an annual survey studying mental health and related issues amongst undergraduate and graduate students. Their research reveals recent trends on college student mental health and the pandemic’s effects – from loneliness and isolation to increasing rates of anxiety and depression.  They also identify interventions considered most effective.