title: Long-term outcome of a school-based, universal approach to prevention of depression in adolescents.
abstract: In this study, the authors examined the 2-, 3-, and 4-year outcomes of a school-based, universal approach to the prevention of adolescent depression. Despite initial short-term positive effects, these benefits were not maintained over time. Adolescents who completed the teacher-administered cognitive-behavioral intervention did not differ significantly from adolescents in the monitoring-control condition in terms of changes in depressive symptoms, problem solving, attributional style, or other indicators of psychopathology from preintervention to 4-year follow-up. Results were equivalent irrespective of initial level of depressive symptoms.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. s.spence@psy.uq.edu.au
authors.forename: Susan H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Spence
authors.forename: Jeanie K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Sheffield
authors.forename: Caroline L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Donovan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011340:Problem Solving