A structural equation model revealed that 8th grade withdrawal positively predicted 9th grade anxiety and
depressive symptoms controlling for 8th grade anxiety and depressive symptoms, but neuroticism did not.
Not exact matches
One randomized
controlled trial comparing home - visited families with
control participants who received other community services found a statistically significant difference in mean
depressive symptoms at two years post-enrollment, but this contrast was nonsignificant at three years post - enrollment.15 A second study of Early Head Start found no differences in
depressive symptoms between intervention and
control group participants post-intervention, although a difference was detected at a longer - term follow - up prior to children's enrollment in kindergarten.10 Other randomized
controlled trial studies have not found effects of home visitation on maternal
depressive symptoms.12, 16,17
An evaluation of Hawaii's Healthy Start program found no differences between experimental and
control groups in maternal life course (attainment of educational and life goals), substance abuse, partner violence,
depressive symptoms, the home as a learning environment, parent - child interaction, parental stress, and child developmental and health measures.25 However, program participation was associated with a reduction in the number of child abuse cases.
A series of randomized
control trials of a nurse home visitation program show a range of positive effects on maternal health, including decreases in prenatal cigarette smoking, fewer hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, and fewer closely spaced subsequent pregnancies., A randomized
control study of another program that works with a particularly high - risk population found that participant mothers showed significantly lower
depressive symptoms than those in the
control group and were less likely to report feeling stressed a year after participation.
Scope of the problem A National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study released this spring shows that 14 percent of patients with drug - resistant major
depressive disorder experience a remission of
symptoms after rTMS treatment compared with a
control group, which reported a 5 percent rate of remission.
According to a recent survey from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, 8 to 19 percent of women reported having frequent postpartum
depressive symptoms, and up to 8 percent of pregnant women reported having depression, according to findings published in 2012 in the Journal of Women's Health.
The research team combined two complementary brain imaging techniques to study the relationship between hippocampal immune response, functional connections, and
depressive symptoms in 13 patients with multiple sclerosis and 22 healthy
control subjects.
The aim of this study was to investigate the role of serotonin in depression, searching for association of two serotoninergic polymorphisms (T102C of serotonin receptor 5 - HT2A and serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region -5-HTTLPR - of SLC6A4 gene) with
depressive symptoms and considering their possible interactions with Apolipoprotein E... (ApoE) and between themselves, in a sample of 208 sporadic AD patients and 116 normal
controls from Italy.
In October 2017, a study published in Scientific Reports suggested psychedelics eased
depressive symptoms by physically changing the area of the brain associated with
controlling emotions.
A 2012 study from the University of Minnesota found that frequent self - weighing was linked to more weight -
control behaviors (both healthy and unhealthy), more
depressive symptoms and lower self - esteem in women.
The latter agent, LPS, is particularly important regarding depression; even relatively small elevations in systemic LPS levels have been shown to provoke
depressive symptoms and disturb blood glucose
control [61 — 67].
Their review included all randomized
controlled trials (12 total) in which yoga was used as therapy for individuals with either
depressive disorders, or a high level of
depressive symptoms.
Depressive symptoms in the yoga group were significantly lower than
symptoms reported by
control participants, who demonstrated little change in either dimension.
It's wildly popular on the internet, but the scientific evidence supports it too; this double - blind placebo
controlled trial concluded that «NAC appears a safe and effective augmentation strategy for
depressive symptoms in bipolar disorder».
Design, Setting, and Participants Randomized
controlled trial conducted between 1999 and 2003 enrolling 418 primary care patients with current
depressive symptoms, aged 13 through 21 years, from 5 health care organizations purposively selected to include managed care, public sector, and academic medical center clinics in the United States.
Donker, T., Bennett, K., Bennett, A., Mackinnon, A., van Straten, A., Cuijpers, P., Christensen, H., Griffiths, K.M. Internet - Delivered Interpersonal Psychotherapy Versus Internet - Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adults With
Depressive Symptoms: Randomized
Controlled Noninferiority Trial.
In pooled analysis of 22 studies, parent training programmes improved
depressive symptoms compared with
control immediately after the intervention (standard mean difference (SMD) = − 0.17, 95 % CI − 0.28 to − 0.07).
Multiple logistic regression was used to
control for potential confounders (selected a priori): child's sex, race, use of behavior - modifying medication, history of academic retention, and hours of television per day; maternal obesity, smoking status, marital status, education, and
depressive symptoms; family poverty status; and Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment - Short Form (HOME - SF) cognitive stimulation score.
While women in this study on antidepressants had lower levels of
depressive symptoms than untreated women they were still higher than
control women.
Randomized
controlled trial of computerized cognitive behavioural therapy for
depressive symptoms: effectiveness and costs of a workplace intervention.
This left 562 participants with both
depressive symptoms and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors who were randomised to receive either Ecouch or the attention -
control condition, HealthWatch.
A 2012 RCT showed that the e-couch Depression program yielded a greater reduction in
depressive symptoms immediately post-test than an attention
control, with the combination of e-couch and an online support group showing longer term positive outcomes for participants.
In our study of primarily white low - income families, maternal
depressive symptoms were positively associated with hours of TV viewing in 3 - and 4 - year - old children even after
controlling for maternal level of education.
Also, we used objective approaches to quantify neighbourhood attributes that allowed us to partially
control for potential reverse causality due to depressed individuals tending to exhibit negative cognitive bias resulting in negative thoughts and perceptions.65 Residential self - selection bias is likely to be a trivial source of reverse causality in this study because Hong Kong's high levels of population density (6760 people / km2) and low percentage of developed land (less than 25 %) 66 limit most residents» choice of accommodation and 37 % of Hong Kong older adults live in public rental housing.67 Given the satisfactory response rate and the level of similarity in
depressive symptoms and sociodemographic characteristics of participants recruited from two types of recruitment centres, the findings from this study are likely to be generalisable to the population of Chinese Hong Kong older adults matching the study eligibility criteria and other populations of older adults living in similar ultra-dense metropolises of Southeast Asia.
Behavioural therapy reduced
depressive symptoms compared to
control at the end of treatment (12 RCTs, 459 participants;
controls included waiting lists, treatment as usual and relaxation).
These results indicate that the CDI norms reported by Twenge and Nolen - Hoeksema (2002) may overestimate the prevalence of
depressive symptoms in general populations, and researchers should collect data from a healthy
control group.
Similarly, the size of between - group differences in
depressive symptoms may vary between studies that used groups matched on sociodemographic variables and studies that did not
control for these between - group differences, because the lack of
control for demographic variables may cause unsystematic bias rather than a general overestimation or underestimation of between - group differences in
depressive symptoms.
Exploring blended group interventions for depression: Randomised
controlled feasibility study of a blended computer - and multimedia - supported psychoeducational group intervention for adults with
depressive symptoms
The response rates on meta - analysis (49.6 % psychotherapy vs 34.8 %
control) compare well with antidepressants.2 The psychotherapy studies have used self - rating scales of
depressive symptoms.
For boys, risk factors for SA included factor 2 of the BIS - 11 scale (lack of perseverance and self -
control), low self - esteem, smoking and
depressive symptoms.
Effects of a psychological internet intervention in the treatment of mild to moderate
depressive symptoms: results of the EVIDENT study, a randomized
controlled trial
We computed effect sizes d for each study as the difference in
depressive symptoms between the sample with chronic illness and the
control sample divided by the pooled SD.
Weighted bivariate and multivariate logistic analyses were used to assess the relationship between maternal
depressive symptoms (trichotomized to depression at both time points, at 1 time point, and at neither time point) and parental prevention practices, while
controlling for a wide variety of sociodemographic variables.
At 12 weeks, the intervention group adjusted mean score for
depressive symptoms on the BDI - II was significantly lower than the
control group by 5.8 points (95 % CI − 11.1 to − 0.5) after adjusting for baseline depression scores, anxiety, sociodemographics, psychotropic medication use and clustering by practice.
The results of mediation analysis using structural equation modeling showed that maternal problems in reciprocal social behavior directly increased infantile aggression (estimate = 0.100, 95 % CI [0.011, 0.186]-RRB-, and indirectly increased infantile aggression via maternal postpartum
depressive symptoms (estimate = 0.027, 95 % CI [0.010, 0.054]-RRB-, even after
controlling for covariates.
After
controlling for the child's age and sex and adjusting for baseline severity of child and maternal
symptoms, there was a significantly larger decrease in internalizing (adjusted mean score difference, 8.6; P <.001), externalizing (6.6; P =.004), and total (8.7; P <.001)
symptoms among children of mothers who had a remission from major
depressive disorder over the 3 - month period than among children of mothers whose major
depressive disorder did not remit (Table 4).
Adjusted regression analyses evaluated predictors of prompts, the percentage of assertive prompts, and intrusiveness and the relation of each of these factors with child adiposity (weight - for - length z score at 15 mo and BMI z score at 24 and 36 mo) after
control for the child's race - ethnicity and sex, family income - to - needs ratio, and maternal education, weight status, and
depressive symptoms.
Maternal
depressive symptoms remained inversely associated with income in this study, even after
controlling for several factors.
Assessing the effectiveness of enhanced psychological care for patients with
depressive symptoms attending cardiac rehabilitation compared with treatment as usual (CADENCE): study protocol for a pilot cluster randomised
controlled trial
Coping with the uncertainty and unpredictability of
symptoms and the progression of MS helps the individual maintain a positive self - image and increase his / hers perception of
control over his / her disease, thus having an impact on
depressive symptomology and fatigue levels.
According to the BESD, 71.3 % of children with chronic fatigue syndrome show
depressive symptoms above the median, as compared to 28.7 % in healthy
controls.
After
controlling for other determining factors and considering the interaction of time and patterns of exercise, the results indicated that only persistent patterns (pattern YY) reveal a significant protective effect from higher levels of
depressive symptoms, regardless of exercise type (OR = 0.58, 0.56, 0.67, 0.62, respectively, all p < 0.05).
We entered the number of patients and
control group members, mean age, percentage of girls and of members of ethnic minorities, the country of data collection, year of publication, type of illness, duration of illness, the sampling procedure (1 = probability samples, 0 = convenience samples), the use of a
control group (0 = yes, 1 = comparison with test norms), equivalence of patients and
control group (1 = yes, 2 = not tested, 3 = no), the rater of
depressive symptoms (1 = child, 2 = parent, 3 = teacher, 4 = clinician), the measurement of the variables, and the standardized size of between - group differences in
depressive symptoms.
We found that after
controlling for demographic characteristics and physical disease, empty - nest older adults had significantly higher levels of loneliness and
depressive symptoms, and a higher prevalence of major
depressive episodes.
A subgroup analysis from the EVIDENT study, a randomised
controlled trial of an internet intervention for
depressive symptoms
Past studies have reported that maternal prepartum
depressive symptoms are a consistent predictor of their children exhibiting aggression and other behavioral problems (Hay, Mundy et al., 2011; Hay, Pawlby, Waters, Perra, & Sharp, 2010), even after
controlling for maternal PDS (Waters, Hay, Simmonds, & van Goozen, 2014).
This is the first double blind, placebo
controlled study to show the effectiveness of a selective serotonergic drug in the reduction of
depressive symptoms and alcohol consumption in patients with comorbid major
depressive and alcohol dependence disorders.
Because the lack of significant effect size on the CDI may indicate that this measure might not be sensitive for
depressive symptoms of young people with chronic illnesses, we also checked whether the results would be consistent in studies that compared children with chronic illness to test norms and to healthy
control groups.
Home - based activity program for older people with
depressive symptoms: dellite - A randomized
controlled trial
After
controlling for demographic characteristics and physical disease, the differences in loneliness,
depressive symptoms and major
depressive episodes remained significant.