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Mental ill-health among students in higher education is a growing problem globally. Most efforts implemented to address ill-health involve individual treatment and adjustments to pedagogy. But more can and needs to be done at a structural or environmental level for higher education institutions to ensure learning and well-being among all students. This is shown by a literature review conducted at the University of Gothenburg.

The study is published in the European Journal of Education.

"The fact that mental ill-health is increasing, not only in Sweden but all over the world, suggests that the causes could be structural and/or environmental," says Therése Skoog, who is the senior author of the study.

She and her research colleagues have reviewed more than 8,000 studies of interventions in higher education globally to counteract students' poor well-being. In the literature review, the researchers wanted to get an overview of the types of interventions that have been made and how these have been received by students.

Two thirds of the interventions have been aimed at changing pedagogy. Most common among the measures that instead focused on more structural changes is to offer individual health counseling. All this is good, says Skoog, but not enough.

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