Clinical trial NCT05731102: Diagnostic Survey of Mental and Substance Use Disorders Among Norwegian College and University Students
Official title: Students' Health and Wellbeing Study (SHOT) 2022
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Mental Disorders
Substance Use Disorders
Treatment
Participation
Lead sponsor: Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Sponsor class: OTHER_GOV
Collaborators: name: Statistics Norway
name: Society of Interventional Oncology
First posted: 2023-02-16
Enrollment: 9585
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 35
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The base study population of the current study stem from the SHoT 2022 study, a large national survey of students enrolled in higher education in Norway. The SHoT 2022 was a comprehensive survey of several domains of mental health and lifestyle factors, distributed electronically through a web-based platform. In short, SHoT 2022 was conducted between February 8 and April 19, 2022, and invited all full-time Norwegian students pursuing higher education. In all, 169,572 students fulfilled the inclusion criteria, of whom 59,544 students completed the online questionnaires, yielding a response rate of 35.1%.

When consenting to participate in the SHOT2022, the students were also asked to indicate if they wished be invited to a follow-up study of mental disorders, of whom 26,311 consented.

Brief summary: The aims of this observational survey are to 1) collect data on the prevalence of mental and substance use disorders, and 2) investigate risk factors and consequences of mental and substance use disorder

Detailed description: This project focuses on mental health, quality of life and alcohol and substance use in students pursuing higher education. The targeted population, all Norwegian college and university students, are in an important and vulnerable period of life transitions. The overall aim of the current project is two-fold: First, the investigators will conduct a clinical assessment of mental disorders by using the newly developed electronic version of the World Health Organization (WHO) Composite International Diagnostic Interview, fifth version (CIDI 5.0), developed for the WHO World Mental Health Surveys. CIDI 5.0 is a standardized interview assessing 30-days,12 months and lifetime prevalence for several mental and substance use disorders according to diagnostic criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th edition (DSM-5) and International Classification of Diseases 10th edition (ICD-10). The overall aim of this will be to obtain accurate prevalence rates of disorders, as well as to validate and compare the briefer instrument used in the Students' Health and Wellbeing Study (SHOT), including the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 (HSCL-25). Second, the investigators will examine risk factors based on data from the SHoT, which is one of the world's largest epidemiological studies of student health.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Being a fulltime college or university student
* Norwegian citizenship
* Ages 18-35 years
* Sufficient understanding of Norwegian or English to conduct the interview

Exclusion Criteria:

* None

Primary outcomes:
measure: Prevalence of mental and substance use disorders
timeFrame: January 2023 to February 2023
Secondary outcomes:
measure: The characteristics of nonparticipants in a psychiatric diagnostic survey
timeFrame: January 2023 to February 2023
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bergen
country: Norway
facility: Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Study officials:
References:
citation: Sivertsen B, Knudsen AKS, Kirkoen B, Skogen JC, Lagerstrom BO, Lonning KJ, Kessler RC, Reneflot A. Prevalence of mental disorders among Norwegian college and university students: a population-based cross-sectional analysis. Lancet Reg Health Eur. 2023 Sep 19;34:100732. doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100732. eCollection 2023 Nov.