The data collection exists as a portion of an overarching IU Mental Health resource awareness campaign. The initial surveillance will serve as a baseline measure to assess a starting point on the current climate, with follow-up surveillance each semester. This information will be used to gauge students’ perceptions regarding accessible and quality mental health resources and services across the Indiana University landscape and to chart how the awareness campaign influences these perceptions of resource accessibility over time.
The American College Health Association’s National College Health Assessment (NCHA) is a nationally recognized research survey. Participation is this survey will assist the Division of Student Affairs in collecting data about students’ health habits, behaviors, and perceptions. It also provides an opportunity for students to give direct feedback about their well-being and impact how health care resources will be prioritized and allocated in the future. The data collected by this survey will be used by the Division of Student Affairs to identify the most common health and behavior risks affecting students' academic performance, assist in the development of evidence-based health promotion programs, provide campus-specific data to be used in social norms marketing campaigns, and provide supporting data for development requests as well as support for funding and staffing allocation.
This survey is created by the Financial Support Working Group of the Provost’s Task Force on the Future of Graduate Education. Although the Provost has already enacted several of the Task Force’s preliminary recommendations, the Task Force is actually a strategic planning group and is still in the midst of gathering data as the ground for many other recommendations. The questions in this survey focus on graduate student financial support matters. The population for the survey includes current graduate student academic appointees.
