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At 31.4% the average depression rate across these colleges (N = 1317) was greater than the reported rates found using comparable self-report instruments in both the university student population, 22%, and adult community population, 16.7%. The rate, level, and mean score of depression found at Truman College were significantly higher than any of these measurements reported in the university student or general adult community literature.","Across these community colleges, 23.5% of the students reported having been depressed for two weeks or more, 77.5% of the depressed students reported that they had frequently or occasionally experienced depression in the past year and 18.4% had thoughts of killing themselves that had lasted for at least one week.","In a series of two-way ANOVAs corrected by the Bonferroni adjustment, depression was found to be strongly and significantly associated with ethnic origin (NonWhite subcategory) but not with sex, age, or marital status.","Since depression has been found to interfere with learning and academic achievement, is associated with attrition and student suicide, and is found to respond to psychoeducational interventions in academic settings, community college educators were urged to take action appropriate to their individual colleges to help depressed students.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:06:32Z (GMT). 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