Abstract

Prevention of major depression in at-risk adolescents: a pilot randomised trial of a screen-and-intervene program

Highlights

  • Given the findings above relating to the low recruitment rates for the study, it is clear that approaching parents through IAPT services and GP practices in this way is not a feasible method of identifying eligible parents and young people for a depression prevention study such as this

  • Considering the smaller proportion of young people scoring in the High-risk group than expected, it may be useful for future studies to consider the effectiveness of the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ) as a screening measure of depression in young people, and whether such a measure is needed given all young people could be considered High-risk by virtue of having a parent with a history of depression

  • Given the low participation rate so far in the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) groups for 14-17 year-olds, a different approach may be needed to engage this group of young people

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Summary

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Depression is common among adolescents, and associated with academic and social impairment, family burden and high rates of attempted and completed suicide. Many cases of adolescent-onset depression continue into adulthood, and each episode of depression raises the risk of a subsequent episode, with repeated episodes being increasingly hard to treat. In this context, recent efforts have been made to prevent the onset of depression in adolescence; no study of targeted depression prevention programmes had been completed in the UK

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