THERAPEUTICS
No long-lasting effects of classroom-based cognitive behavioural and interpersonal prevention programmes on depressive symptoms in adolescents
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
Jason L Horowitz
Correspondence to: Jason L Horowitz, University of Minnesota, Department of Psychiatry, F256 2B West, 2450 Riverside Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA; horow015@umn.edu
Are cognitive behavioural and interpersonal prevention programmes effective for preventing depressive symptoms in adolescents?
380 adolescents (average age 14.4 years) attending wellness classes in high school. These adolescents were not selected on the basis of having depressive symptoms or being at risk for depression.
Three high schools, Tennessee, USA; 2004–5.
Cognitive behavioural programme (CB-P), interpersonal psychotherapy-adolescent skills training programme (IPT-P), or no intervention (control). The prevention programmes were given in small groups (8–15 students) as weekly 90 minute sessions for eight weeks as part of wellness classes. Participants in the control group received their standard wellness curriculum (details not given).
Depressive symptoms (Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI) minus question about suicidal ideation, Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale (CES-D)). A composite depression score was obtained by
University of Bath, Mental Health Research and Development Unit and the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, Bath, UK
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
Technorati What's this?
- Full Text
- Full Text (PDF)
- web only notes
- Alert me when this article is cited
- Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
- Email this link to a friend
- Similar articles in this journal
- Similar articles in PubMed
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Topic Collections
Bookmark with
Register for free content
The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.
Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.
