This study explored the therapeutic effect of Chinese moral and ethical education combined with sertraline hydrochloride on college students’ depression. It is to find an economical, convenient, and efficient treatment to help students get rid of depression.

In a tertiary level hospital, 90 patients with depression who are studying in university were selected as the experimental subjects. The patients were randomly divided into combination group and drug group by computer. For patients in the drug group, one sertraline hydrochloride tablet was taken daily during the treatment period. For patients in the combination group, half an hour of Chinese moral and ethical education was conducted every day on the basis of the drug group. Before and after the experiment, the self-rating depression scale (SDS) was used to evaluate the treatment effect of depression in the combination group and drug group.

Before the experiment, the scores of the combination group and drug group were 68.42 ± 6.53 and 69.05 ± 4.49, respectively, with no significant difference (P > 0.05). After a period of treatment, the score of the combination group was significantly lower than that of the drug group (P < 0.05), as shown in Table 1.Table 1.

Score of combination group and drug group

Note: compared with before treatment in the group, *P<0.05

It can be seen from the existing reports that the current rate of college students suffering from depression is increasing year by year, which greatly affects the normal work and study of students. Therefore, the study used Chinese moral and ethical education combined with sertraline hydrochloride drug therapy to intervene the depressive symptoms of college students. The results showed that after a period of treatment, the score of the combination group was significantly lower than that of the drug group (P < 0.05). This shows that the treatment proposed by the study can effectively treat college students’ depression.

The research is supported by: Key Project of Social Science Funds of Liaoning Province, “Research on the Loyalty and Its Influencing Factors of the People’s Police” No. L17ASH001; Major Cultivation Project of Basic Scientific Research Funds of Central Universities “Research on the Status, Role and Realization Path of Ideological and Political Courses in Public Security Universities in” Political Police Building” No. 3242020019.