A systematic review of digital mental health interventions for students during the COVID-19 pandemic

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dc.contributor.advisorPadmanabhanunni, Anita
dc.contributor.authorKader, Zainab
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-26T09:27:50Z
dc.date.available2025-02-26T09:27:50Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractStudents are vulnerable to mental health conditions, due to the pressures associated with tertiary learning. Disruptions in the academic processes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic added to the pressure, which raised concern for students’ mental health, and the development of digital interventions to address their needs. Several digital interventions have come into existence, since the onset of the pandemic in 2019. Therefore, this current study was aimed at systematically reviewing existing digital mental health interventions for students during the COVID-19 pandemic, using a RE-AIM Framework, to evaluate their properties, and determine their efficacy. Consequently, the researcher employed a systematic review methodology to identify English, peer reviewed studies, published between January 2020 and April 2023, and focused on digital mental health interventions for students during the COVID 19 pandemic. Seven databases were accessed, namely, (1) Academic Search Complete, (2) Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, (3) Medline, (4) APA PsycArticles, (5) SosIndex with full text, (6) Sabinet and (7) PubMed. The following three levels of review were utilised to determine relevance and inclusion: (1) title screening; (2) abstract screening; and (3) full texts screening. Full text articles were critically appraised, using the RE-AIM appraisal tool. Eleven studies were deemed eligible for this current study.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/20122
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversty of the Western Cape
dc.subjectDigital Mental Health
dc.subjectCOVID-19 Pandemic
dc.subjectDigital Technologies
dc.subjectEffectiveness
dc.subjectInterventions
dc.titleA systematic review of digital mental health interventions for students during the COVID-19 pandemic
dc.typeThesis

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