Blog #6

My first source is The Relationship between Depression and College Academic Performance by Virginia M DeRoma; John B. Leach; J Patrick Leverett
This article is informative about studies that have been done to find associations between students with symptoms of depression and their academic performance. And as what would be expected, students who had more severe symptoms of depression had worse academic performance compared to students with minimal or no symptoms of depression. The study results suggest that screening measures should be taken in order to counter the symptoms of depression on students academic performance.
I find this article to be very helpful towards me because my paper topic is the impact Depression has on college students, and obviously being students, academics will be a key part of that topic. I was expecting an association with more severe symptoms of depression and worse academic performance, but that is why i still need to do research to see if i can find any studies that counter these results.
My next source is Sleep Patterns and Symptoms of Depression in College Students by Peggy R Brooks, Alicia A Girgenti and Maura J Mills.
This article is informative about studies that have been done to find a possible association between sleep patterns and depression in college students. This study results in individuals who have experienced periods of depression found that their sleeping patterns were off in that they had trouble falling and staying asleep. The study discovers specific symptoms of depression related to sleep disturbances.
This article will be helpful to me in trying to prevent Depression in college students, and one way to do that is to look at students' sleeping patterns. I would not have originally made a connection between sleep and depression symptoms in college students.