A non-randomised pragmatic trial of a school-based group cognitive-behavioural programme for preventing depression in girls

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the DISA-programme in preventing depressive symptoms (DS) in adolescent girls, as implemented in a real-world school setting, accounting for baseline socioeconomic and psychosocial factors, and to investigate whether the effects of these...

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Published in:International Journal of Circumpolar Health
Main Authors: Zetterström Dahlqvist, Heléne, Landstedt, Evelina, Almqvist, Ylva B, Gillander Gådin, Katja
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för hälsovetenskap 2017
Subjects:
School
depressive symptoms
real-life setting
pragmatic trial
cognitive-behavioural
sexual harassment
Public Health
Global Health
Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Folkhälsovetenskap
global hälsa
socialmedicin och epidemiologi
Circumpolar Health
International Journal of Circumpolar Health
Northern Sweden
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-87758
https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2017.1396146
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Summary:The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the DISA-programme in preventing depressive symptoms (DS) in adolescent girls, as implemented in a real-world school setting, accounting for baseline socioeconomic and psychosocial factors, and to investigate whether the effects of these baseline variables on DS differed between intervention participants and non-participants. In this non-randomised pragmatic trial, an electronic questionnaire was disseminated in 2011 (baseline) and 2012 (follow-up) in schools in one municipality in northern Sweden. Pupils (total n=275; intervention participants identified in the questionnaire: n=53; non-partici-pants: n=222) were 14–15 years old at baseline. The groups were compared by means of SEM. DISA could not predict differences in DS at follow-up in this real-life setting. In the overall sample, sexual harassment victimisation (SH) at baseline was associated with DS at follow-up and the estimate for SH increased in the DISA-participants compared to the overall sample.

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