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Student Wellbeing and Academic Stress Survey

Measures student stress levels, workload, sleep habits, and use of mental health support, then identifies the biggest barriers keeping students from asking for help. Built for student affairs, wellness centers, and academic advisors; the AI follow-up reconstructs a specific recent moment a student needed support but didn't seek it, and what would have changed that.

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13 questions · ~7 min
Q01
Message

Hi! This short survey asks about your workload, sleep, and access to support this term. There are no right answers — honest responses help us improve things for students. It takes about 5 minutes and your answers are confidential.

Q02
Multiple ChoiceRequired

In the last 7 days, about how many hours did you spend on coursework outside of class (studying, homework, projects)?

  • 0-5 hours
  • 6-10 hours
  • 11-15 hours
  • 16-20 hours
  • More than 20 hours
Q03
Opinion ScaleRequired

Overall, how stressed have you felt in the last 7 days?

Scale: 1 – 10
Min:No stress at allMax:Overwhelming stress
Q04
Multiple ChoiceRequired

On average, how many hours of sleep did you get per night in the last 7 days?

  • Less than 5 hours
  • 5-6 hours
  • 7-8 hours
  • More than 8 hours
Q05
MatrixRequired

How often has each of the following been a source of stress for you this term?

5 rows × 5 columns
  • Academic workload and deadlines
  • Financial concerns
  • Sleep or physical health
  • Relationships or family
  • Uncertainty about the future or career
Columns: Never · Rarely · Sometimes · Often · Always
Q06
Multiple Choice

In the last 3 months, which of these have you used for stress or mental health support?

  • Campus counseling or health services
  • A professor or academic advisor
  • Friends or family
  • A peer support group or club
  • Online resources or apps (e.g., meditation apps, hotlines)
Q07
Best–Worst Trade-off (MaxDiff)

Which of these gets most in the way of you seeking support when you're stressed?

  • Stigma or embarrassment
  • Not knowing where to go
  • Cost of services
  • Long wait times for appointments
  • Not having enough time
  • Preferring to handle it on my own
  • A past negative experience with support services
  • Concerns about privacy or confidentiality
Pick best & worst per setBest:Biggest barrierWorst:Smallest barrier
Q08
Opinion ScaleRequired

How supported do you feel by your school or institution when you're struggling?

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Not supported at allMax:Extremely supported
Q09
AI Interview

Focus on the barrier the respondent ranked as biggest in the previous question. Ask them to walk through a specific recent time they were stressed but didn't seek help — what stopped them in that moment, and what, if anything, would have changed their decision. If they say nothing really stops them, or they reported using no support resources, ask what would need to happen before they'd reach out and probe whether they actually know how to access campus resources.

Q10
Multiple Choice

What year of study are you currently in?

  • First year
  • Second year
  • Third year
  • Fourth year or higher
  • Graduate/postgraduate
  • Prefer not to say
Q11
Multiple Choice

Which age range do you fall into?

  • 18 or younger
  • 19-22
  • 23-26
  • 27 or older
  • Prefer not to say
Q12
Multiple Choice

What is your gender identity?

  • Woman
  • Man
  • Non-binary
  • Prefer to self-describe
  • Prefer not to say
Q13
Message

Thank you for sharing this — it's not always easy to talk about stress and sleep. Your responses are confidential and will be used to improve support services and remove barriers to getting help.

What’s included

  • AI follow-ups

    Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.

  • Attention checks

    Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.

  • AI-drafted copy

    Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.

  • Auto report

    Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.

How it compares

We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.

Why this template

  • Goes beyond static rating scales by using an AI follow-up interview that reconstructs a specific recent moment the student needed support but didn't seek it, surfacing concrete detail rather than just a score.
  • Includes a max-diff question to force a ranked tradeoff on what actually gets in the way of seeking support, then has the AI interview drill into whichever barrier the respondent ranked highest.
  • Covers the full picture in one flow — workload hours, stress level, sleep hours, a matrix of recurring stressors, support-service usage, and perceived institutional support — before asking the open-ended AI question.
  • Built specifically for student affairs, wellness centers, and academic advisors, with a chat-style intro/outro and standard demographic questions (year of study, age range, gender identity) for segmentation, plus auto-generated reporting.

Jotform

Student Stress Survey Form Template

A fielding-ready static form template covering student stress topics, built on Jotform's drag-and-drop form builder. It's easy to customize and embed but relies entirely on fixed questions with no follow-up logic. Good for quick data collection, not for probing individual student context.

What it does well

  • Fielding-ready, easily customizable form builder
  • Simple to embed/share and likely integrates with Jotform's broader form ecosystem
  • Low barrier to entry for quick deployment

Where it falls short

  • No adaptive AI follow-up — cannot probe into an individual's specific stress moment
  • No automated per-response quality scoring
  • No transparent, published prompt/methodology for how questions were designed

QuestionPro

Student stress survey questions | Stress assessment questionnaire for students

QuestionPro offers a fielding-ready question set framed as a stress assessment questionnaire, backed by their established survey platform and analytics dashboard. It's a solid static question bank but doesn't dynamically adapt to what a student reveals mid-survey. Reporting is standard dashboard analytics rather than narrative synthesis of open-ended answers.

What it does well

  • Backed by a mature survey platform with established analytics/reporting
  • Ready-to-use question bank for quick deployment
  • Likely supports broad distribution and panel options

Where it falls short

  • No adaptive AI interview or voice AI option to explore individual barriers in depth
  • No per-response quality scoring
  • No guided task/screen-share capability for deeper qualitative context

SurveySparrow

Student Stress Questionnaire Template

A fielding-ready, conversational-style questionnaire template that fits SurveySparrow's chat-like UI, which makes it feel friendlier than a plain form. It's still a fixed question sequence, so it can't branch into a personalized reconstruction of a stressful moment the way an AI interview can. Reporting is limited to standard survey analytics.

What it does well

  • Conversational UI that may feel more approachable to student respondents
  • Fielding-ready template requiring minimal setup
  • Part of a broader survey platform with typical dashboard reporting

Where it falls short

  • No adaptive AI follow-up questioning tailored to each respondent's ranked barrier
  • No automated quality scoring of open-ended responses
  • No transparent prompt documentation for how deeper questions are generated

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