Community Health School, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Asyut, Egypt; Division of Epidemiology, Community Health Sciences School, D Floor, West Block, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
J Psychiatr Res. 2013 Mar;47(3):391-400. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2012.11.015. Epub 2012 Dec 20.
Depression is a common health problem, ranking third after cardiac and respiratory diseases as a major cause of disability. There is evidence to suggest that university students are at higher risk of depression, despite being a socially advantaged population, but the reported rates have shown wide variability across settings.
To explore the prevalence of depression in university students.
PubMed, PsycINFO, BioMed Central and Medline were searched to identify studies published between 1990 and 2010 reporting on depression prevalence among university students. Searches used a combination of the terms depression, depressive symptoms, depressive disorders, prevalence, university students, college students, undergraduate students, adolescents and/or young adults. Studies were evaluated with a quality rating.
Twenty-four articles were identified that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Reported prevalence rates ranged from 10% to 85% with a weighted mean prevalence of 30.6%.
The results suggest that university students experience rates of depression that are substantially higher than those found in the general population. Study quality has not improved since 1990.
抑郁症是一种常见的健康问题，在导致残疾的主要病因中排名第三，位列心血管疾病和呼吸道疾病之后。有证据表明，尽管大学生属于社会优势群体，但他们患抑郁症的风险更高，然而，不同研究环境下报告的发病率存在很大差异。
探讨大学生抑郁症的患病率。
检索了 1990 年至 2010 年间发表的关于大学生抑郁症患病率的文献，使用的检索词包括抑郁症、抑郁症状、抑郁障碍、患病率、大学生、大学生、本科生、青少年和/或青年。使用质量评分评估研究。
符合纳入和排除标准的文章有 24 篇。报告的发病率从 10%到 85%不等，加权平均发病率为 30.6%。
结果表明，大学生的抑郁发病率明显高于普通人群。自 1990 年以来，研究质量并未提高。
