NCT00073671

Prevention of Depression in At-Risk Adolescents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 316 (actual)
• Sponsor: Vanderbilt University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study examines the impact of a group cognitive behavioral program aimed at preventing depressive disorders and symptoms in adolescents at risk for developing depression.

Detailed description

Depression is a prevalent, chronic, and impairing condition that is often undetected and becomes more difficult to treat as chronicity increases. There is an increasing need to conduct large-scale depression prevention studies in adolescents. This study evaluates a cognitive-behavioral prevention (CBP) program to determine its effectiveness in preventing depressive disorders in at-risk adolescents. The study also will ascertain the costs this intervention to inform attempts at future dissemination of the program in "real world" settings. Participants in this study are randomly assigned to receive either CBP for eight weekly and 6 monthly continuation sessions or usual care. Depressive symptoms and disorders, levels of functioning, and medical and mental health care utilization are assessed at baseline and again at 2, 8, 20, and 32 months after intake.

Conditions

• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive-behavioral prevention program	Cognitive-behavioral prevention program includes 8 weekly and 6 monthly group sessions.
OTHER	Usual care	Participants receive usual care

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-03-01
• Primary completion: 2006-03-01
• Completion: 2009-01-01
• First posted: 2003-12-03
• Last updated: 2022-01-31

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: United States