4.3. Recommendations
The present Indian study revealed that university students can be in duress. Therefore, there is an urgent need to arrange mental health support services for the university students by professional psychologists in terms of individual and group counseling. In general, people in Indian society are hesitant to seek mental health support services due to ignorance and social stigma and taboos. Therefore, awareness programmes on depression and the utility of mental health support services among students through workshops and leaflets will be highly beneficial in motivating them to come forward for the support services. In addition to face to face support services, web-based prevention programmes can be adopted for disseminating information about the most common challenges faced by the students since today’s students’ are highly connected to digital and web-based technologies (Davies et al., 2014). The evidence also confirmed that cognitive, behavioral, and mindfulness interventions are effective in reducing stress in university students (Regehr et al., 2013). The authorities of the university should take appropriate measures in a sensitive manner concerning students’ perception of academic environment and living arrangements. A conceptual mode has been proposed for addressing the issues and challenges faced by the university students (Chart 1).