Screening sexually active teenagers, particularly boys, for depressive symptoms could help identify those at risk for sexually transmitted diseases.
Researchers from Harvard University Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, also suggest that adolescents diagnosed with STDs should be monitored for depression.
“Clinicians, including mental health professionals, need to recognise the temporal associations between depressive symptoms and STDs in adolescents,” the investigators say. “Although girls are more likely than boys to report depressive symptoms after early adolescence, our findings suggest that clinicians need to be particularly alert to boys with depressive symptoms, who are at increased risk for being diagnosed as having a STD.”
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