Trial reportBMC psychiatry2019
Cognitive behavioral treatment for depressed adolescents: results from a cluster randomized controlled trial of a group course.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Six- and Twelve-Month Follow-up Results of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of a CBT-Based Group Course.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021Trial
- School Relational Environment and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms: Insights from Latent Profile and Network Analysis.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Parents' and Children's Experiences of Participation in the Family Centered Program for Problematic Gaming and Excessive Screen Use in Child and Adolescent Population.Scandinavian journal of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology · 2025Article
- Prevalence of depressive symptoms and their determinants among adolescents in Can Tho City, Vietnam: A cross-sectional study.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- Reducing anxiety symptoms in adolescents with pre-existing depression: results from a randomized control trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Coupled changes between ruminating thoughts and resting-state brain networks during the transition into adulthood.Molecular psychiatry · 2024Article
- 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
- Be YOU!: A Collaborative Effort to Address Minority Stress for LGBTQ+ Youth in School Settings.Journal of gay & lesbian social services · 2023Article
- Social Support and Parental Conflict as Predictors of Outcomes of Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescent Depression.International journal of cognitive therapy · 2023Article
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- Psychological Treatments for Depression in Adolescents: More Than Three Decades Later.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe group-based CBT intervention, the Adolescent Coping with Depression Course (ACDC), has previously been evaluated within a quasi-experimental design, showing reduction in depressive symptoms compared to a benchmark of similar studies. The aim of our study was to investigate the effectiveness of ACDC within a randomized controlled (RCT) design.
methodThirty-five course/control leaders randomly assigned to provide ACDC or usual care (UC) recruited 133 adolescents allocated to ACDC and 95 to UC. ACDC participants received eight weekly sessions and two follow-up sessions about 3 and 6 weeks after the last session. UC participants received usual care as implemented at the different sites. Depressive symptoms were measured with the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale for adolescents (CES-D), perfectionism with the revised version of the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS), and rumination with the revised version of the Ruminative Responses Scale (RRS). Attrition was considered missing at random (MAR) and handled with a full information maximum likelihood (FIML) procedure.
resultsIntention to treat analysis (ITT), including baseline scores and predictors of missing data as control or auxiliary variables, showed a small to medium reduction in depressive symptoms for the ACDC group compared to UC (d = -.31). Changes in perfectionism and rumination in favor of the intervention were also significant. Sensitivity analyses confirmed the findings from the ITT analyses.
conclusionsThe current study supports the effectiveness of this group-based CBT intervention. The intervention can hopefully result in clinically significant reductions in symptoms associated with depression among adolescents.
trial registrationISRCTN registry ISRCTN19700389 . Registered 6 October 2015.
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