Limitations
anxiety
The major limitation of this study is that it is primarily exploratory in nature; the intervention and parent RCT was designed to study rape, not mental health. Replications of this research, with baseline measurements of mental health, and analysis of empowerment interventions focused on mental health, are warranted. In addition, as these questions were placed at the end of the survey, response rates were lower than ideal. For example, the anxiety questions were only answered by about half of the respondents, and it is likely that students unable to complete the survey in the allotted time were non-randomly different than those who were. Nonetheless, these methods are applicable to other populations and contexts, and this study demonstrates how rigorous statistical methods can be deployed to analyze global mental health.