How are you feeling, as a student? Participate in our health survey!
NEWS
All undergraduate programme students who are currently taking their first semester will receive a health survey via email in the middle of November. The survey is part of an international WHO project that the University is participating in.
Life as a student can be great and exciting, but sometimes involves situations that may appear tough or demanding. At times, you may need support in how to handle things. In order for the University to have better opportunities to offer you the right support when you need it, we are participating in a project about, and for, students' mental health, which is run by the World Health Organization WHO. First, we need to know how you actually are feeling as a student, and if your health situation changes during the study period.
How you can contribute
You who are currently taking your first semester in an undergraduate study programme, will recive an email on Tuesday 12 November asking you to fill in a health questionnaire. The email subject will be (in Swedish) “Hur har du det? WHO-enkät till dig som är student”. The sender is WHO Student Survey (the email adress is noreply[at]qemailserver.com, from the Qualtrics survey platform). If you do not receive the email in your inbox, please check your spam folder in case it has ended up there instead. Preliminarily on 4 November, you will receive an email with initial information about the project and the health survey.
The questionnaire contains questions about your physical and mental health and takes a while to answer. Regardless of how you feel when you receive the survey, your answers are very valuable to us so that we will be able to develop helpful forms of support for our students.
About the project
The survey is part of the global research project "World Health Organization (WHO) World Mental Health International College Student Initiative (WMH-ICS)". Umeå University participates together with several universities in Sweden and in about 20 countries around the world. The long-term project goal is to prevent mental illness in students.
