Healthy Minds Study

You have been invited to participate in this study to better understand the mental health needs of students at Clark University. HMS was designed specifically for colleges and universities, and its success depends on gathering the perspectives of all students. Clark University hopes to use the information you provide to get to know the students better and to advocate for the creation, expansion, and/or maintenance of programs and resources for mental health and overall well-being.

We invited all spring 2024 enrolled students at Clark to participate in this voluntary study. We welcome a diverse perspective! Students are considered eligible to take the Healthy Minds survey if they are 18 and over, enrolled as a student at this school, and currently living within the United States.

Over the course of the one-month data collection period (February 21, 2024 – March 20, 2024), students who have not completed the survey will receive several reminders.

To opt out (and stop receiving emails):

• Follow the survey link to the consent form and click “No, I do not consent to participate in this study.”
• Click on the “Opt-Out” link located at the bottom of your recruitment or reminder email.

This survey was designed to protect your privacy and ensure confidentiality. Clark University chose to utilize a confidential protocol, which means:

• Your answers to the survey will be stored in a file that is separate from your email address.
• The data from this study, without any identifiable information, is stored in a secure digital location by the research team for future research purposes.
• Any reports or articles written about this survey will describe people’s answers all together (in the aggregate or as a whole) and will contain no information that could allow someone to identify you.
• Clark University will receive a de-identified data set and will not be given access to individually identifiable survey data. We will also leave out any sports team affiliation or country of origin that you may have indicated. This helps make sure that no one at your school can look at the de-identified data set and guess who you are by “connecting-the-dots” with indirect-identifying information.
• The Health Minds Survey team provides additional exclusion of data prevent direct and deductive-identification:
  • academic discipline on campuses with small sample sizes
  • elimination of select demographic variables for unique cases that may be easy to identify within a dataset prior to providing the dataset to the participating school

Read the full details on the protocol and data protections.

Clark University is participating in HMS to better understand faculty and staff well-being and perceptions of student behavioral and mental health needs. All employees at Clark have been invited to participate in this study to give your perspectives on the current state of student mental health and well-being, as well as to share your own experience.

Clark University provided our team at the University of Michigan with a list of faculty and staff members. This list only included your email address for the purpose of survey recruitment. Your school has determined that they may share this data with our study team, considering federal, state, and institutional policies and regulations.  For specifics on your school’s decision, you may contact the researchers at hms-coordination@umich.edu, or reach out to Robin Dankovich, Associate Dean for Student Success, Health and Well-Being. That individual is listed at the end of the consent form at the beginning of the survey.

Over the course of the one-month data collection period (February 21, 2024 – March 20, 2024), faculty and staff who have not completed the survey will receive several reminders.

If you wish to opt out (and stop receiving emails), there are two approaches:

• Follow the survey link to the consent form and click “No, I do not consent to participate in this study.”
• Click on the “Opt-Out” link located at the bottom of your recruitment or reminder email.

This survey was designed to protect your privacy and ensure confidentiality. Clark University chose to utilize a confidential protocol, which means:

• Your answers to the survey will be stored in a file that is separate from your email address.
• The data from this study, without any identifiable information, is stored in a secure digital location by the research team for future research purposes.
• Any reports or articles written about this survey will describe people’s answers all together (in the aggregate or as a whole) and will contain no information that could allow someone to identify you.
• Clark University will receive a de-identified data set and will not be given access to individually identifiable survey data.
• The Health Minds Survey team provides additional exclusion of data prevent direct and deductive-identification:
  • academic discipline on campuses with small sample sizes
  • elimination of select demographic variables for unique cases that may be easy to identify within a dataset prior to providing the dataset to the participating school

Read the full details on the protocol and data protections.

We invite all faculty and staff at Clark to participate in this voluntary study. We welcome a diverse perspective!

We welcome feedback about our study! Please fill out the brief, anonymous feedback form to provide your suggestions for improving the Healthy Minds Study.