Comparison of depressive symptoms and eating behaviors among Japanese university students with subthreshold depression before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Our results suggest that not only depressive but also bulimic symptoms should have been monitored among university students with subthreshold depression during the pandemic. Attention to stress-coping behaviors may be important for interventions to prevent the deterioration from subthreshold depression to clinical depression during a pandemic. However, the results could have been affected by many other factors, and further research is required.