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Jan. 7, 2005
Ten percent of graduate and professional students at the University of California at Berkeley have contemplated suicide. That’s one of the disturbing statistics in a new study.
Amid a wave of publicity about suicide among undergraduates, Berkeley decided it was time to look at its graduate population’s mental health. Among the findings:
The study included only Berkeley graduate students. But Temina Madon, an analyst at Berkeley’s health-services department who worked on the study, says she doesn’t think the findings are “Berkeley specific.” In an e-mail, Madon writes: “We’ve been in touch with interested faculty, students and staff at UC Davis, UC San Diego and U. Michigan Ann Arbor, and we’re hopeful that similar such surveys will be undertaken at these universities.”
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