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Q Are universal or targeted cognitive behavioural interventions in young people at risk of depression effective?
METHODS
Design:
Multicentre, stratified, cluster randomised controlled trial.
Allocation:
Concealed.
Blinding:
Unblinded.
Follow up period:
Twelve months.
Setting:
Thirty four schools in Queensland and New South Wales, Australia; time period not stated.
Patients:
2479 young people in Year 9 (mean age 14.3 years), including 521 young people at high risk of depression (combined score for the Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI) and the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D) in the highest 20%).
Intervention:
Universal cognitive behavioural intervention (eight weekly 45–50 minute sessions), targeted cognitive behavioural intervention (eight weekly 90 minute sessions delivered only to young people at high risk of depression), universal …
Footnotes
For correspondence: Jeanie K Sheffield, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia; jeanie{at}psy.uq.edu.au
Sources of funding: not stated.
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