ABSTRACT

Depression is a mood disorder that causes persistent feeling of sadness, hopelessness and decreased energy. Students in higher institutions have higher chances of being depressed because of the sudden change in environment which entails them being independent and so they have to experience things they haven’t experienced before and so while trying to adapt to this new life, some become depressed. There are several symptoms of depression a person must have been experiencing for a minimum of two weeks before being confirmed depressed and those symptoms were stated in this study. Sometimes, depressed persons engage in suicidal activities and so this study aims at designing a software that will help to detect depression in a student and also locate such student. This study used Flutter programming language to develop a mobile application software for the computerized detection of depression in students of the University of Benin.