Prevention of Adolescent Major Depression

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

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

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Helsinki

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Eastern Finland

  collaborator OTHER

• Kuopio University Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• City of Vantaa

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• City of Kuopio

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• City of Turku

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

  lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

• Mauri J Marttunen, Professor · National Institute for Health nd Welfare, Dept of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

14 Years

Max Age

16 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2008-03-31

Primary Completion

2013-12-31

Completion

2013-12-31

Countries

• Finland

Study Locations