Researchers from King’s College London suggest allowing young people with depression to delay or stagger their exams to improve performance.
The study, carried out by King's PhD student Alice Wickersham, tracks the attainment of almost 1,500 students who had been diagnosed with depression before turning 18 over a seven-year period.
The average age for diagnosis was 15 years old, it finds.
The research shows that children diagnosed with depression between the ages of 15 and 18 were likely to have performed well in primary school before suffering a substantial decline in attainment in Year 11.
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