College students with autism have dramatically higher rates of anxiety and depression compared to their peers, a new study says.
Nearly two-thirds (65%) of college students with autism suffer from anxiety, compared with just over 9% of their peers without autism, researchers reported recently in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Likewise, nearly half (48%) report depression, compared to nearly 8% of their peers, results show.
"What we found is really staggering -- autistic individuals endorse much higher rates of anxiety and depression compared to their non-autistic peers," lead researcher Diego Aragon-Guevara, a doctoral student in psychology at Binghamton University, State University of New York, said in a news release.
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