Major Depressive Disorder
Conditions
Interventions
This is a randomized controlled clinical trial with three parallel groups and no blinding, conducted with school adolescents who will participate exclusively online. After the baseline assessment, eli
Sponsors
Núcleo de Saúde Mental, Cognição e Comportamento, Curso de Psicologia, Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Curso de Psicologia, Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Eligibility
Age
10 Years to 19 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Participants will be included who are enrolled and attending from 6th to 9th grade of elementary school or high school in the participating educational institutions located in the urban area of the municipality of Pelotas; who live in the urban area of the municipality of Pelotas; who do not present, according to self-report or institutional information, any disability that prevents understanding of the instructions and responding to the research instruments; who are not at risk of failing due to absences or an equivalent situation
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Participants will be excluded who are outside the target age range of 10 to 19 years; who do not have a device with regular internet access that allows participation in the online activities
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To evaluate the change in the intensity of depressive symptoms in adolescents between baseline and post-intervention by applying the Patient Health Questionnaire for Adolescents (PHQ-A) to all participants, considering as the expected outcome a mean reduction of at least 1.5 points in the total scale score at the post-intervention assessment in the intervention groups compared with the control group | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To evaluate, between baseline and post-intervention, the change in the intensity of anxiety symptoms using the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) scale, in the level of worries using the ultra-brief three-item version of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ-3), in psychological well-being using the World Health Organization Five-Item Well-Being Index (WHO-5), and in insomnia severity using the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) in all participants, considering as secondary outcomes the mean difference of these changes between each intervention group and the control group | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactTiago Munhoz
Curso de Psicologia, Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Outcome results
None listed