NCT00611052

Prevention of Adolescent Major Depression

"Adolescents Coping With Stress": Prevention of Adolescent Major Depression in School Health Care

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 65 (actual)
• Sponsor: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The main purpose of this study is to assess the effect of a cognitive group intervention on prevention of major depression in 14-15-year-old adolescents. Moreover, the effect on other selected mental health parameters are investigated.

Conditions

• Depressive Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	the Adolescent Coping with Stress	A group cognitive intervention, manualized and highly structured. Includes 8 sessions (á 1.5 hours) and a booster session 6 months after termination of the actual intervention. Groups leaders are specifically trained for this course.
BEHAVIORAL	Treatment as usual	The usual treatment received by the adolescent with mild to moderate self-reported depressive symptoms in school health care.
OTHER	usual health education	usual health education given by the school nurses, targeted for healthy controls with no depressive symptoms according to the self-report scale

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-03-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2013-12-01
• First posted: 2008-02-08
• Last updated: 2016-04-20

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: Finland