FRIDAY, Feb. 7, 2003 (HealthDayNews) -- There's been a dramatic increase in American college students' mental health problems over the last 13 years.
A new study of 13,257 students seeking help at the counseling center of a large Midwestern university found the number of students seen each year with depression doubled over the last 13 years. The report appears in the February issue of Professional Psychology.
The number of suicidal students coming in to the counseling center tripled and the number of students seeking help after a sexual assault quadrupled.
Overall, the study found there were more students seeking help to deal with 14 of 19 mental health problem areas.
Until 1994, relationship problems were the most frequently reported issue for college students. Since then, stress and anxiety have been reported more often than relationship problems.
Some serious problems had no significant change in frequency over the course of the 13-year study. Those include substance abuse, eating disorders, legal problems and chronic mental illness.
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