Survey of Zimbabwean University Students' Mental Health Service Preferences

1070 students from five tertiary institutions in Harare, Zimbabwe, completed questionnaires on awareness, utilization, and barriers to campus-based mental health services. The dataset, created by Omega Mukubvu, contains descriptive statistics and multivariate logistic regression results from this cross-sectional study. It was last updated on 2026-05 06 17:36:54.

Use Cases

• Analyze factors influencing awareness of campus mental health services based on familial and personal history variables.
• Model predictors of service utilization based on reported barriers like lack of providers and past experiences.
• Identify student preferences for support types, such as self-help services or individual therapy, to inform service design.

Strengths

• Includes data from 1070 participants, providing a substantial sample size for analysis.
• Reports specific statistical findings, such as a 76.5% awareness rate and a 16.5% utilization rate for services.
• Released under a CC-BY-4.0 license, permitting broad reuse with attribution.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is limited to a specific geographic (Harare, Zimbabwe) and demographic (tertiary students) context.

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 17:36:54; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Harare, Zimbabwe