Depression
Conditions
Keywords
Depression, Prevention, Adolescents, School, Effectiveness
Brief summary
The purpose of this pilot study is to test the effectiveness of French adaptation of the Blues program, a school-based indicated depression prevention intervention. The program will be delivered by the endogenous psycho-social staff of 3 Montreal secondary schools to adolescents with sub-clinical depressive symptoms and compared to a no-intervention (Informational Brochure only) control condition, designed to represent the usual intervention in these schools.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALBlues program
Participants will attend 6 weekly 1-hour sessions of group cognitive-behavioral therapy administered by school staff, and will do home practice between sessions and after the program individually using a web site (called the Blues App)
Sponsors
Université de Montréal
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE (Subject, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
14 Years to 18 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Elevated depressive symptoms (score of 20 or above on the Center for Epidemiological Studies - Depression screening questionnaire)
Exclusion criteria
* Current major depression diagnosis * Current active suicidal behaviors * Being in a special school curriculum for academic or behavioral problems
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Number of participants who develop a major depressive episode as measured using the SCID diagnostic interview (posttest, 6 month follow-up) | 6 months |
| Change in depressive symptoms as measured using continuous SCID scores (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up) | 6 months |
| Change in depressive symptoms as measured using the CES-D questionnaire (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up) | 6 months |
| Change in depressive symptoms as measured using the PHQ-9 questionnaire (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up) | 6 months |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Change in substance use as measured using a scale from the MASPAQ questionnaire (Leblanc, 1996) (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up) | 6 months |
| Change in anxiety symptoms as measured using the SCAS questionnaire (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up) | 6 months |
| Change in delinquent behaviors as measured using a scale from the MASPAQ questionnaire (Leblanc, 1996) (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up) | 6 months |
| Change in parent-child relationship as measured using a scale from the MASPAQ questionnaire (Leblanc, 1996) (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up) | 6 months |
| Change in social adjustment as measured using Évaluation sociale de Soi chez les jeunes adultes questionnaire (Michaud et al., 2006) (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up) | 6 months |
| Change in affective school engagement as measured using a subscale of the school engagement questionnaire (Archambault et al., 2009) (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up) | 6 months |
Countries
Canada
Outcome results
None listed