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Subsequent Higher Education After Adolescent Depression: A 15-Year Follow-Up Register Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

U. Jonsson ,
H. Bohman ,
A. Hjern ,
L. von Knorring ,
G. Olsson  and
A.-L. von Knorring
U. Jonsson*
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 751 85Sweden Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 751 85Sweden
H. Bohman
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 751 85Sweden
A. Hjern
Affiliation:
Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 751 85Sweden National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm, 106 30Sweden
L. von Knorring
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 751 85Sweden
G. Olsson
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 751 85Sweden
A.-L. von Knorring
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 751 85Sweden
*
*Corresponding author. Tel.: +4618 611 25 67; fax: +4618 611 25 65. E-mail address: ulf.jonsson@neuro.uu.se (U. Jonsson).
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Abstract

Background

Adolescent depression has been shown to have a range of adverse outcomes. We used longitudinal data to investigate subsequent higher education in former depressed adolescents.

Method

A Swedish population-based investigation of depression in 16–17-year-olds was followed up in national registers 15 years later. Adolescents with depression (n = 361, 78% females) were compared to a group of non-depressed peers of the same age (n = 248, 77% females). The main outcome was graduation from higher education by age 30.

Results

The adolescent with depression were less likely than their non-depressed peers to have graduated from higher education by age 30, both regarding females (27.7% vs. 36.4%, p < .05) and males (12.7% vs. 28.6%, p < .05). After adjustment for early school performance, socioeconomic status and maternal education, the decreased likelihood of subsequent graduation from higher education remained for depressed males (OR, 0.27; 95% CI, 0.08–0.93) but not for depressed females (OR, 0.93; 95% CI, 0.58–1.49).

Conclusion

Contrary to what previous research has suggested, adolescent depression and its consequences might be particularly destructive to subsequent higher education in males.

Keywords

Higher educationFollow-upAdolescent depression
Type
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 25 , Issue 7 , November 2010 , pp. 396 - 401
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Copyright © Elsevier Masson SAS 2019

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