Sunday, October 31, 2010

Articles on Depression #1

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100609083221.htm



It was conducted by Science Daily on June 11, 2010. The high school seniors were 3 times more likely to have very strong depression symptoms iy they slept a lot during the day. they said that 52% had excessive daytime sleepiness then that 30% had very strong depression symptoms and that 32%had some symtopms of depression. the study involved 262 high school students that were in senior class and that they were averaged 17.7 years who were attending the public school in Mercer County, N.J. participants reported socio-demographic characteristics using a cross-sectional survey. The findings that were made were that they founded that sleep deprivation was commin among high school seniors. The mean of the total sleep time on school during ther nights was of only 6.1 hours and an increased sleep time of 8.2 hours on weekend nights.

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