December 10, 2004

More College Students Report Diagnoses of Depression

By ERIC HOOVER

Opinion: The Mental-Health Crisis: What Colleges Must Do

The number of college students who said they had ever received a diagnosis of depression has increased by 4.6 percentage points over the last four years, according to a survey released last month by the American College Health Association.

In the spring of 2004, 14.9 percent of students reported having received such a diagnosis, compared with 10.3 percent of

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