Fact of the day

Pooled results from student mental health trials show interventions lowered depression scores by an average of 2.21 points on the PHQ-9 questionnaire, but effects on anxiety and sleep quality were inconclusive.

Study design

Review

Journal

J Clin Med

Evidence

preliminary

⚠What it shows: A tentative average, not a guarantee: results pooled from seven of nine eligible trials in university students, and the trials disagreed with each other so much that the true effect in a new setting could be zero. The anxiety and sleep results were too inconsistent to call either way.Review · J Clin Med