In Depression and Anxiety, the authors feel that if there is effort to treat depression among college students, there will be more money allotted to the colleges because many students withdraw from college due to their depression. Conversely, it is unknown as to whether or not therapies for evidence-based depression in college students is as effective as it is in adults. Due to the fact that the rigor and higher-level thinking of college might affect the treatment being different among various college students. The method that was used in order to test this hypothesis is conducting a metaanlysis of randomized trials that compare the treatments of depressed college students in comparison with control groups. There were 15 trials on college students
