Prevention of depression among Icelandic adolescents: A 12-month follow-up

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• 作者：Eirikur Orn Arnarson^a ; W. Edward Craighead^b ; ^{ecraigh@Emory.edu}
• 关键词：Depression ; Adolescents ; Prevention ; Follow-up ; Iceland
• 刊名：Behaviour Research and Therapy
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：March 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：49
• 期：3
• 页码：170-174
• 全文大小：171 K

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This paper reports the 12-month follow-up results regarding a program designed to prevent the initial episode of depression and/or dysthymia among Icelandic adolescents. This indicated prevention program was implemented in school settings for 14–15 year-old students judged to be “at risk” for depression because of the presence of some depressive symptoms and/or a negative attributional style. We previously reported (Arnarson & Craighead, 2009) that this program, when compared to treatment-as-usual, was effective in preventing the first episode of depression and/or dysthymia at 6-months following completion of the program. Survival analyses of the 12-month follow-up data indicated that the preventive effects were sustained at the end of 1 year following the completion of the prevention program with only 2 of the prevention program participants reporting an initial episode of MDD/DYS versus 13 of the TAU participants (χ² = 5.02, p = .025). Using logistic regression, we also found that initial level of depressive symptoms significantly (p = .0330) predicted the first episode of depression and/or dysthymia among TAU subjects. The limitations of the study were noted, and future directions of research regarding prevention of depression were discussed.