title: Internet-based depression prevention over the life course: a call for behavioral vaccines.
abstract: Technology-based approaches for the prevention of depression offer considerable benefits including easy access, patient autonomy, and "nonconsumable" services that are autonomous from traditional (face-to-face) interventions. The authors have previously worked to develop Internet interventions based on the frameworks for conventional, face-to-face effective community-based interventions, and propose to integrate these models into a "behavioral vaccine model" aptly applicable to technology-based delivery. This article reviews the literature on Internet-based depression prevention programs using this behavioral vaccine development model, reviewing literature relevant to each component of the model in turn.
authors.affiliation: Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. bvanvoor@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
authors.forename: Benjamin W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Van Voorhees
authors.forename: Nicholas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mahoney
authors.forename: Rina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mazo
authors.forename: Alinne Z
authors.initials: AZ
authors.lastname: Barrera
authors.forename: Christopher P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Siemer
authors.forename: Tracy R G
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Gladstone
authors.forename: Ricardo F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Muñoz
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D003863:Depression / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009042:Motivation; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods*; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods