The Campus for Recovery: Addressing Health Problems Among Universidad Students

2023-06-18 09:12:18

Los health problems of the young people who attend the Universidad They are one of those silent problems that weigh on our society. They are invisible to the eyes of the community and are not always associated with pathologies or physical problems. These are addictive behaviors that can jeopardize the academic future of students and it is important to stop them. On this idea, the Complutense University of Madrid has created a program called ‘The Campus for Recovery’. This project has not only professionals in the field and the inRecovery association, but also adds 18 students as mentors operating under the baton of gabriel rubiohead of the Psychiatry Service of the Hospital October 12 and Vice Dean of Integration of the School of Medicine.

At the beginning of the academic year, the program requested the disinterested collaboration of the students of the School of Medicine to give them specific training on addictions, in such a way that they might identify and advise to colleagues who are at risk. “Access to people who may need help is closer through peers and, if they do not have the necessary tools to help, they refer them to us and, if a major problem is detected, we refer them to the Hospital 12 de Octubre “, points gabriel rubio in statements to this newspaper.

All the students that make up the Faculty of Medicine of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) they know the identity of these mentors and what classrooms they are in, so “they can turn to them to consult their problems and find out if they are in a situation of risk,” he explains.

Empowering medical students

However, the mentor’s role goes beyond serving as a liaison between the troubled learner and education professionals. Psychiatry. “Not only does it serve to tell you regarding a problem or help solve it, it’s more. The mentor takes charge of the follow-up of the evolution of that student”, explains the doctor. “This has allowed us for the rectorate to recognize the program as a teacher improvement project because we have included the theoretical, the practical and the accompaniment of the therapeutic process, which is practical in real life. This is the first time something like this has been done in a Spanish public university and European. what we do is empower students so that they are able to learn in a different way than they were doing”, he affirms.

“As a ‘reward’, these students receive a mention for the hours of training they have received in their graduate degree in Medicine,” explains Rubio before confessing that he hopes to recruit more mentors for the next academic year.

Risk behaviors among medical students

Parallel to this programme, the ‘Campus for Recovery’ team has carried out a survey in which 40 percent of the UCM Medicine students have participated to find out the prevalence of the different risk behaviors on which to improve training, detection and therapeutic response.

The use of mobile phones and emotional eating have been identified in a survey as the most common risk behaviors among Medicine students

The results, with a total of almost 800 students from the undergraduate Medicine, Nutrition and Occupational Therapy They have evidenced with their responses as the most frequent risk behaviors the use of mobile phones and emotional food intake. Thanks to these conclusions, gabriel rubio and his team have devised a series of courses on the prevention of these two major problems that will be taught in the next academic year 2023/2024.

The objective, as Rubio recalls, is to continue working to improve the health of all the students that make up the Complutense University of Madrid.

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