Primary Care Based Depression Prevention for Adolescents/Young Adults/Young Adults and Young Adults

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00145912

Acronym

CATCH-IT

Enrollment

Registered

2005-09-05

Start date

2007-02-28

Completion date

2011-10-31

Last updated

2013-09-05

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Conditions

Depression

Keywords

Depression in adolescents and young adults, depression web-base activity

Brief summary

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the feasibility of an interview between an adolescent / young adult and a PCP (Primary Care Physician).

Detailed description

A web-based depression prevention program will evaluate the interview. Depression is a condition where people feel sad, tired, have changes in sleep, and lose interest in fun things for more than two weeks. This program teaches adolescents/young adults new skills. They learn new skills by talking with their doctor and doing a workbook at an Internet site. Counselors have used some of these lessons to successfully treat, and in some cases, prevent depression. We do not know if these lessons given in a primary care doctor's office or over the Internet will prevent depression. We will have to do further studies to determine this. If subjects are clinically depressed right now, they cannot be a part of this study.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALMI + CATCH-IT Internet Site

MI + CATCH-IT Internet Site

BEHAVIORALBA (brief advice) + CATCH-IT Internet site

BA (brief advice) + CATCH-IT Internet site

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

15 Years to 21 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* age 15-21 years and * two risk factors for developing depression in the next two years: * Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression (CES-D) score \> 12 and either a family history or past personal history of depression. *

Exclusion criteria

include meeting criteria or undergoing active treatment for M. depression, or having suicidal ideation

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
use of Internet site	2 months

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
depressed mood and risk factors	4 years

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Mar 10, 2026