With the purpose of affording promotion and intervention proposals on mental health care of undergraduate students of the State University of South Mato Grosso (UEMS), the main objective of this study is to verify the index of the service utilization and to characterize the attendants' clients by demographic and clinical variables. The study includes all the patients files of the Psychological Counseling Center of UEMS from May 2000 to July 2001. Which is retrospective and exploratory study. The profile of the clients attended in the mental health service shows that 9.5% of the undergraduate students between 19 and 20 years old (88%), in which most are women (83%), look for psychological help because of psychological difficulties (44.7%) and generalized anxiety (38.3%). These results shows that the existence of a Mental Health Service Center at a university could, besides identifing and treating psychological and psychiatric disturbs, be used to create a better plan on the attendance of their students' necessities.
Mental health; Undergraduate student; Psychological counseling; Brief psychotherapy