<p>Awareness of on-campus mental health services.</p>

1070 students from five tertiary institutions in Harare, Zimbabwe, participated in a descriptive cross-sectional study. The dataset, authored by Omega Mukubvu and last updated in May 2026, contains questionnaire responses evaluating awareness, utilization, preferences, and barriers to accessing campus-based mental health services. The mean participant age was 21.7 years.

Use Cases

• Analyze factors associated with awareness of campus mental health services based on familial and personal mental health history.
• Model predictors of service utilization based on variables like substance use and availability of specific support types.
• Identify key barriers to accessing mental health care based on institutional resource availability and personal/friend history.
• Investigate student preferences for mental health support modalities, such as self-help services or individual therapy.

Strengths

• Includes responses from 1070 students, providing a substantial sample size.
• Contains specific statistical findings, such as a 76.5% awareness rate and a 16.5% utilization rate for services.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for broad reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data reflects a specific geographic and temporal context focused on Zimbabwean students in Harare.

Provenance

Source

Omega Mukubvu via figshare

Collection Method

Descriptive cross-sectional study using questionnaires.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-05 06 17:36:49; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Harare, Zimbabwe