{"id":4547,"date":"2021-06-21T12:57:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T12:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=4547"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:09","slug":"university-students-and-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2021\/06\/21\/university-students-and-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"University students and mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UCAS has <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ucas.com%2Fcorporate%2Fnews-and-key-documents%2Fnews%2F450-increase-student-mental-health-declarations-over-last-decade-progress-still-needed-address&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7Cb8002c09090448c695f308d933099f81%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C637596938698863036%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=U6%2B7AgD3r%2Bil49a9uflkU4FjnevjR7lz91p8IzkKTmQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\">published a report, Starting the Conversation, <\/a> which explores mental ill health in university applications.\u00a0<br>There has been a 450% increase in declarations in the last decade but despite this UCAS estimates 49% of those effected did not declare it.  And there were variations in who declared: female applicants were more likely to declare than male.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCAS has published a report, Starting the Conversation, which explores mental ill health in university applications.\u00a0There has been a 450% increase in declarations in the last decade but despite this UCAS estimates 49% of those effected did not declare it. And there were variations in who declared: female applicants were more likely to declare than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[183,396,509,93],"class_list":["post-4547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-sociology","tag-higher-education","tag-mental-health","tag-students","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4548,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547\/revisions\/4548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}