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A New Method for Inducing a Depression-Like Behavior in Rats
Published on: February 22, 2018
Health habits and depression in adolescence
S L Kaplan1, M Nussbaum, P Skomorowsky
1Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center, Post Office Box 38, 11040, Glen Oaks, New York.
Abstract:
In a study of the relationship between health habits and depression, 80 high school students, selected on an availability basis, were administered a Health Behaviors Questionnaire (HBQ) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). The HBQ and the BDI significantly correlated (r=0.43p<0.01). Those who smoked were more frequently depressed than those who did not (X (2)=10.5p<0.05), and those who used drugs other than marijuana were depressed more frequently than those who did not (X (2)=9.2p<0.01). Mildly overweight boys (overweight by more than 5% of their ideal weight) and mildly under-weight boys (underweight by more than 5% of their ideal weight) were more.
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