More Than a Third of Homeowners in Foreclosure Suffer from Major Depression, Penn Study Shows

Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 15:28 in Health & Medicine

The nation’s home foreclosure epidemic may be taking its toll on Americans’ health as well as their wallets. Nearly half of people studied while undergoing foreclosure reported depressive symptoms, and 37 percent met screening criteria for major depression, according to new University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine research published online this week in the American Journal of Public Health.

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