By About Age 16, Teens Diagnosed With Depression May Have Lower Educational Attainment, Researchers Say

HealthDay (10/8, Reinberg) reports, “By about age 16, teens diagnosed with depression have substantially lower educational attainment,” investigators concluded after using “British health and education records to identify nearly 1,500 kids under 18 years of age with depression,” then comparing “educational attainment…with a group of young people who were not depressed.” The findings were published online in the British Journal of Psychiatry.

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— “Depressed Teens May Struggle in School “Steven Reinberg, HealthDay, October 8, 2020

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