Collection

2024 ASEE PSW Conference

Authors

Paul Lu, University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering. Depart of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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• Low population “mental health literacy” • Inadequate infrastructure, facilities, equipment, drug distribution systems • Shortage of skilled mental health workers • Geographic maldistribution of available workforce • Disciplinary imbalance: dominated by physicians and nurses • Hospital centered • Undeveloped information systems, with lack of high-quality local information to support planning • Poorly developed mental health systems research capacity • No culture of evaluation or continuous quality improvement • Poorly organized and marginalized consumers, carers, civil society • Narrow population coverage: wide “treatment gap

Collection

2024 ASEE PSW Conference

Authors

Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University; John Misasi PhD, Western Washington University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

of the datagathering and analysis process. The collaborative team-based research approach proved effectivein systematically sifting through the extensive responses, narrowing it to essential topics. Theirwork also extended to extracting quotes that captured the student’s experiences, concerns, andsentiments regarding the department’s operations and responses to incidents that they planned toshare with the department faculty.Results & Discussion:Research findings were categorized into three overarching themes that aligned with the questionprompts: student expectations (Prompt 1), challenges with current climate (Prompt 2), andgeneral impact on students (both Prompt 1 & 2). For each main theme, researchers thenidentified sub-themes as