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SynthesisDepression and anxiety2016

PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION IN COLLEGE STUDENTS: A METAANALYSIS.

Pim Cuijpers, Ioana A Cristea, David D Ebert, Hans M Koot, Randy P Auerbach, Ronny Bruffaerts, Ronald C Kessler

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Synthesis in Depression and anxiety, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03903978 (Efficacy and Effectiveness of a Self-applied Online Program to Promote Resilience and Coping Skills in University Students in Three Spanish-speaking Countries), which is not on this map. Cited by 51 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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51citing papers in PubMed, 9 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT03903978 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2018, after this paper: background citation

Efficacy and Effectiveness of a Self-applied Online Program to Promote Resilience and Coping Skills in University Students in Three Spanish-speaking Countries: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversitat Jaume IRan2018 to 2020Enrolled324ConditionsCORE Condition, Healthy Lifestyle Psychoeducational Program, Waiting List ControlArmsCognitive Behavioral Therapy, Healthy lifestyle
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 133 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 6 institutions in 6 countries.

Pim CuijpersDepartment of Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Ioana A CristeaDepartment of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
David D EbertDepartment of Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander University Nuremberg-Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.
Hans M KootDepartment of Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Randy P AuerbachDepartment of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Center for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Research, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts.
Ronny BruffaertsUniversitair Psychiatrisch Centrum - KU Leuven, Kortenberg, Belgium.
Ronald C KesslerDepartment of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · NLBabeș-Bolyai University · ROFriedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg · DEHarvard University · USKU Leuven · BEMcLean Hospital · US

Funding

Examination of Reward Processing in the Treatment of Adolescent Major DepressionK23MH097786 · NIMH · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI AUERBACH, RANDY PATRICK · 2013 to 2016
$686k
NIMH NIH HHS K23 MH097786
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundExpanded efforts to detect and treat depression among college students, a peak period of onset, have the potential to bear high human capital value from a societal perspective because depression increases college withdrawal rates. However, it is not clear whether evidence-based depression therapies are as effective in college students as in other adult populations. The higher levels of cognitive functioning and IQ and higher proportions of first-onset cases might lead to treatment effects being different among college students relative to the larger adult population.

methodsWe conducted a metaanalysis of randomized trials comparing psychological treatments of depressed college students relative to control groups and compared effect sizes in these studies to those in trials carried out in unselected populations of depressed adults.

resultsThe 15 trials on college students satisfying study inclusion criteria included 997 participants. The pooled effect size of therapy versus control was g = 0.89 (95% CI: 0.66∼1.11; NNT = 2.13) with moderate heterogeneity (I(2) = 57; 95% CI: 23∼72). None of these trials had low risk of bias. Effect sizes were significantly larger when students were not remunerated (e.g. money, credit), received individual versus group therapy, and were in trials that included a waiting list control group. No significant difference emerged in comparing effect sizes among college students versus adults either in simple mean comparisons or in multivariate metaregression analyses.

conclusionsThis metaanalysis of trials examining psychological treatments of depression in college students suggests that these therapies are effective and have effect sizes comparable to trials carried out among depressed adults.

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AdolescentAdultDepressive DisorderFemaleHumansMalePsychotherapyStudentsUniversitiesbehavioral activation therapycognitive behavior therapycollege studentsdepressionmetaanalysispsychotherapy

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PMID26682536
PMCPMC4846553
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