Trial reportGeneral hospital psychiatry2017
Effects of a brief ED-based alcohol and violence intervention on depressive symptoms.
Trial report in General hospital psychiatry, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Self-administered single-session interventions for mental health in young people: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Pooled it
- Adaptive interventions for alcohol misuse and violent behaviors among adolescents and emerging adults in the emergency department: Outcomes from a sequential multiple assignment randomized controlled trial.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Trial
- Translating Violence Prevention Programs from Research to Practice: SafERteens Implementation in an Urban Emergency Department.The Journal of emergency medicine · 2022Trial
- Feasibility and Acceptability of a Text Message-Based Intervention to Reduce Overuse of Alcohol in Emergency Department Patients: Controlled Proof-of-Concept Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Trial
- Emergency department text messaging for adolescent violence and depression prevention: A pilot randomized controlled trial.Psychological services · 2018Trial
- Evaluating a Digital Intervention to Reduce Aggression and Pro-Firearm Violence Attitudes Among Young Black Males: Pretest-Posttest Feasibility Study.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2025Article
- Practitioner experiences of developing and implementing two UK ED-based hospital violence intervention programmes: a process evaluation.Emergency medicine journal : EMJ · 2025Article
- Firearm possession among emergency department youth and young adults: A latent class analysis.Preventive medicine · 2025Article
- Adaptive interventions for alcohol misuse and violent behaviors among adolescents and emerging adults in the emergency department: A sequential multiple assignment randomized controlled trial protocol.Contemporary clinical trials · 2023Article
- Impact of a single school-based intervention for COVID-19 on improving mental health among Japanese children.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2022Article
- Implementation of a youth violence prevention programme in primary care.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2022Article
- Digital Technologies for Emotion-Regulation Assessment and Intervention: A Conceptual Review.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2022Article
- Psychological Treatments for Depression in Adolescents: More Than Three Decades Later.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- A Perspective on the Integration of eHealth in Treatment of Offenders: Combining Technology and the Risk-Need-Responsivity Model.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Associations between frequency of cigarette and alternative tobacco product use and depressive symptoms: A longitudinal study of young adults.Addictive behaviors · 2019Article
- A technology-augmented intervention to prevent peer violence and depressive symptoms among at-risk emergency department adolescents: Protocol for a randomized control trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2019Article
- Problem Behaviors and Psychological Distress Among Teens Seen in a National Sample of Emergency Departments.Academic pediatrics · 2018Article
- eHealth in Treatment of Offenders in Forensic Mental Health: A Review of the Current State.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
- Future Directions in Single-Session Youth Mental Health Interventions.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Article
- Screening for Firearm Violence Exposure in Adolescents and Young Adults.Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFMArticle
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Abstract
objectiveDepressive symptoms frequently co-exist in adolescents with alcohol use and peer violence. This paper's purpose was to examine the secondary effects of a brief alcohol-and-violence-focused ED intervention on depressive symptoms.
methodAdolescents (ages 14-18) presenting to an ED for any reason, reporting past year alcohol use and aggression, were enrolled in a randomized control trial (control, therapist-delivered brief intervention [TBI], or computer-delivered brief intervention [CBI]). Depressive symptoms were measured at baseline, 3, 6, and 12months using a modified 10-item Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CESD-10). Poisson regression was used (adjusting for baseline age, gender, and depressive symptoms) to compare depressive symptoms at follow-up.
resultsAmong 659 participants, higher baseline depressive symptoms, female gender, and age≥16 were associated with higher depressive symptoms over time. At 3months, CBI and TBI groups had significantly lower CESD-10 scores than the control group; at 6months, intervention and control groups did not differ; at 12months, only CBI had a significantly lower CESD-10 score than control.
conclusionsA single-session brief ED-based intervention focused on alcohol use and violence also reduces depressive symptoms among at-risk youth. Findings also point to the potential efficacy of using technology in future depression interventions.
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