Few college students with depression get adequate care

Less than one in four college students with symptoms of serious depression receives minimally adequate treatment, and services currently available on campuses might not be sufficient for delivering good quality mental health care, according to a new study in the journal General Hospital Psychiatry. The ideal campus mental health care service would be a collaborative one that combines psychiatrists, general physicians and psychologists with other health care providers, Depression Center member Daniel Eisenberg, Ph.D., associate professor of health management and policy and lead author of the study, said in an interview with Health Behavior News Service. "Most campuses are not close enough to that ideal."

 

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