Prevalence of depressive symptoms among entrance test applicants of Mirpurkhas

ABSTRACT

Background the interest of the scientific community regarding depression in students is rather new. However, case reports dating back to the seventeenth century do exist. In that era, the belief prevailed that depression rarely existed [if at all] among students but the belief is now being challenged. Our research takes the belief one step further and hypothesizes that depression is most often high during tests and exams and the highest when they are preparing for and about to appear in entrance tests