Trial reportJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2015
Effectiveness trial of an indicated cognitive-behavioral group adolescent depression prevention program versus bibliotherapy and brochure control at 1- and 2-year follow-up.
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- Assessing fidelity measurements in school-based anxiety, depression and suicide prevention programs: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Estimation of Effect Heterogeneity in Rare Events Meta-Analysis.Psychometrika · 2022Pooled it
- Major depression prevention effects for a cognitive-behavioral adolescent indicated prevention group intervention across four trials.Behaviour research and therapy · 2018Pooled it
- Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), third-wave CBT and interpersonal therapy (IPT) based interventions for preventing depression in children and adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Streamlined Prevention and Early Intervention for Pediatric Anxiety Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2020Trial
- Indicated school-based intervention to improve depressive symptoms among at risk Chilean adolescents: a randomized controlled trial.BMC psychiatry · 2016Trial
- Pilot trial of a dissonance-based cognitive-behavioral group depression prevention with college students.Behaviour research and therapy · 2016Trial
- Moderators of the effects of indicated group and bibliotherapy cognitive behavioral depression prevention programs on adolescents' depressive symptoms and depressive disorder onset.Behaviour research and therapy · 2015Trial
- A comparison of the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural interventions based on delivery features for elevated symptoms of depression in adolescents: A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2024Review
- Long-term effects of psychosocial interventions for adolescents on depression and anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Article
- The Potential Influence of Group Membership on Outcomes in Indicated Cognitive-Behavioral Adolescent Depression Prevention.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Persistent Low Positive Affect and Sleep Disturbance across Adolescence Moderate Link between Stress and Depressive Symptoms in Early Adulthood.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2020Article
- Longitudinal Reciprocal Associations Between Anxiety, Depression, and Alcohol Use in Adolescent Girls.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2019Article
- Computer-Assisted Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy to Treat Adolescents With Depression in Primary Health Care Centers in Santiago, Chile: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- Interactions between risk factors in the prediction of onset of eating disorders: Exploratory hypothesis generating analyses.Behaviour research and therapy · 2018Article
- Comparative efficacy and acceptability of bibliotherapy for depression and anxiety disorders in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2018Article
- Teens Engaged in Collaborative Health: The Feasibility and Acceptability of an Online Skill-Building Intervention for Adolescents at Risk for Depression.Internet interventions · 2017Article
- In Reply.Obstetrics and gynecology · 2017Article
- Design and evaluation of a peer network to support adherence to a web-based intervention for adolescents.Internet interventions · 2016Article
- Specificity of Incident Diagnostic Outcomes in Patients at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2015Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe main goal of this study was to evaluate the long-term effects of a brief group cognitive-behavioral (CB) adolescent depression indicated prevention program through 2-year follow-up, relative to CB bibliotherapy and brochure control, when high school personnel recruited students and delivered the program.
methodThree hundred seventy-eight adolescents (M age = 15.5, SD = 1.2; 68% female, 72% White) with elevated self-assessed depressive symptoms who were randomized to CB group, CB bibliotherapy, or educational brochure control were assessed at pretest, posttest, and 6-, 12-, 18-, and 24-month follow-up.
resultsBy 2 years postintervention, CB group participants showed significantly lower major depressive disorder (MDD) onset versus CB bibliotherapy (10% vs. 25%, respectively; hazard ratio = 2.48, p = .006), but the incidence difference relative to brochure controls (17%) was nonsignificant; MDD incidence for bibliotherapy and brochure controls did not differ. Although CB group participants showed lower depressive symptoms at posttest versus brochure controls, there were no effects for this outcome or for social adjustment or substance use over 2-year follow-up. Moderator analyses suggested that participants with higher baseline depressive symptoms showed greater long-term symptom reductions in the CB group intervention versus bibliotherapy.
conclusionsThe evidence that a brief CB group intervention delivered by real-world providers significantly reduced MDD onset versus CB bibliotherapy is potentially encouraging. However, the lack of MDD prevention effects relative to brochure control and lack of long-term symptom effects (though consistent with results from other depression prevention trials), suggest that the delivery of the CB group should be refined to strengthen its effectiveness.
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