A meta-analysis study on freshmen' s mental health from 2005 to 2009

Objective To analyze the reports on mental health from 2005 to 2009,and to provide the policies to improve the level of college students' mental health.Methods SCL-90 and mental health were taken as the keywords,sixty reports on freshman' s mental health were selected,then data were analyzed by meta-analysis study.Results The D between the sixty reports and national norm was 0.28.Except for the factor of obsession and psychoticism were middle effect,the others were small effect.Among the ten independent variables,the difference between village and city,teacher-training students and non teacher-training students,poor students and non-poor students were middle effect,the others were small effect,and the difference were not significant.Conclusion The freshman' s mental health are normal except several groups or factors.