MENTAL HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS, DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY OF STUDENTS: NUMBERS AND HUMANS?
Students’ mental health is a public health problem that seems under-considered, partly because of the heterogeneity of the results obtained in the different surveys. This heterogeneity has different causes: inaccuracy in the terms used; confusion in the time periods studied; variability of questionnaires used that do not measure the same symptoms and whose detection thresholds vary by study; data analysis modeling leading to overly simplistic narrative constructs. This problematic is inherent in both the scientific process and its use in social discourse.