SynthesisSystematic reviews2024
Screening for depression in children and adolescents in primary care or non-mental health settings: a systematic review update.
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- Pooled it
- Association of hearing loss and risk of depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Pooled it
- When Distress Goes Unseen: Mental Health Recognition Failures in Language-Discordant Consultations.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Team-Effectiveness Barriers and Solutions to Depression Screening within a Pediatric Hospital Network: A Qualitative Study.Evidence-based practice in child and adolescent mental health · 2026Article
- Beyond the Silence: COM-B-Informed Provider Barriers to Depression Screening Among Filipino American Patients.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- 2025 update of the Greig Health Record: Part 2-what's controversial?Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2026Review
- Screen time, physical activity, sleep, and depression risk in adolescents: an observational study based on the compositional isotemporal substitution model.Frontiers in public health · 2026Observational
- Evaluating Clinical Decision Supports to Improve Adolescent Depression Screening and Management in Pediatric Primary Care.Academic pediatrics · 2025Article
- Cost-Effectiveness of Universal Routine Depression Screening for Adolescents in Primary Care.JAMA health forum · 2025Article
- Reliability and Validity of the Full-Length Greek-Cypriot Version of the Children's Depression Inventory 2.Psychiatric research and clinical practice · 2025Article
- Association Between Health-Related Physical Fitness and Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Adolescents: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study Under the Healthy China Initiative.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2025Article
- Article
- Trends in Mental Health: A Review of the Most Influential Research on Depression in Children and Adolescents.Annals of general psychiatry · 2024Article
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18 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundThe transition from childhood to adolescence is associated with an increase in rates of some psychiatric disorders, including major depressive disorder, a debilitating mood disorder. The aim of this systematic review is to update the evidence on the benefits and harms of screening for depression in primary care and non-mental health clinic settings among children and adolescents.
methodsThis review is an update of a previous systematic review, for which the last search was conducted in 2017. We searched Ovid MEDLINE® ALL, Embase Classic+Embase, PsycINFO, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and CINAHL on November 4, 2019, and updated on February 19, 2021. If no randomized controlled trials were found, we planned to conduct an additional search for non-randomized trials with a comparator group. For non-randomized trials, we applied a non-randomized controlled trial filter and searched the same databases except for Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials from January 2015 to February 2021. We also conducted a targeted search of the gray literature for unpublished documents. Title and abstract, and full-text screening were completed independently by pairs of reviewers.
resultsIn this review update, we were unable to find any randomized controlled studies that satisfied our eligibility criteria and evaluated the potential benefits and harms of screening for depression in children and adolescents. Additionally, a search for non-randomized trials yielded no studies that met the inclusion criteria.
conclusionsThe findings of this review indicate a lack of available evidence regarding the potential benefits and harms of screening for depression in children and adolescents. This absence of evidence emphasizes the necessity for well-conducted clinical trials to evaluate the effectiveness of depression screening among children and adolescents in primary care and non-mental health clinic settings. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: PROSPERO CRD42020150373 .
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