Societal costs of subclinical depressive symptoms in Dutch adolescents: a cost-of-illness study.
Denise H M BoddenMarieke W H van den HeuvelRutger C M E EngelsCarmen D DirksenPublished in: Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines (2021)
Cost-effective prevention programmes seem warranted given the high societal costs and risk of future costs as subclinical depressive symptoms could be a precursor of clinical depression later in life.