Intervention study on psychological problems of college students

  Objective   To probe the effective treatment method for reducing the morbidity of psychological problems in college students.

  Methods   205 subjects with 2 or more factors scoring above 2.3 by SCL-90 test were sampled in the study.They were divided into three experimental groups and one control group.The experimental groups were treated with psychological method.Chinese medicine and combination of both respectively for half year.The appraisal of the intervention was made through the following three kinds of differences tests: the differences between the experimental group and the differences between before and after the interventions.

  Results   The total scores, the average scores and factor scores of the three experimetnal groups were higher than the control.The differences between before and after interventions were significant(P < 0.001).

  Conclusion   The three intervention methods were effective for the psychological problems to various extent.Of them, the combination of Chinese medicine and psychological treatment was the best.