ArticlePloS one2025
Students' attitudes and experiences toward mental health support services in Ireland: A qualitative study.
Article in PloS one, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Usability testing of the Pathway app: engaging stakeholders to improve access to mental health support for students.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundThere is a high prevalence of mental health difficulties among students in higher education. Barriers to seeking mental health support are well documented in this population. However, there is very little research on students' experiences of accessing mental health support services in Ireland. This study aims to: 1) explore students' experiences of accessing mental health support services in Ireland, and 2) investigate barriers to the use and continuous utilisation of these services.
methodsWe distributed an anonymous online survey to students at University College Cork through mailing lists and posters. The results presented in this study are a thematic analysis of the open-ended responses describing experiences with mental health support services before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
resultsThis analysis produced three main themes encompassing students' experience seeking support. They include: 1) barriers to service use and engagement, 2) impact of COVID-19 restrictions on service use, and 3) barriers to continued use of support. These themes summarise barriers encountered by students throughout their help-seeking journeys. The process of seeking support was not straightforward, and students often encountered barriers that prevented or delayed their use of services.
conclusionThere is a need to improve mental health literacy in this population, specifically, teaching students how to access support and what to expect from services. In addition, we recommend that mental health support services improve the process of gaining entrance to a service, by making it better suited to the student population.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.