To explore effects of
the intervention on depressive symptoms, social functioning, quality of life, satisfaction and costs
Efficacy of mindfulness - based
interventions on depressive symptoms among people with mental disorders: A meta - analysis.
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
«This study supports the use of a yoga and coherent breathing
intervention in major
depressive disorder in people who are not
on antidepressants and in those who have been
on a stable dose of antidepressants and have not achieved a resolution of their
symptoms,» explained corresponding author Chris Streeter, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and neurology at Boston University School of Medicine and a psychiatrist at Boston Medical Center.
Although it was designed to focus
on depressive symptoms, the
interventions have been shown to be effective in preventing and reducing anxiety
symptoms as well (see moodgym research evidence).
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.
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
Parents were assessed with the Family Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia.19 Teens were grouped into clinical groups based
on their
depressive symptoms and determination of DSM - III - R20, 21 diagnoses; details
on all interviewed subjects are reported elsewhere.22 This analysis focuses
on a medium depression group (n = 123 [25.9 %]-RRB-, which was called the subsyndromal group.12 These teens reported a previous depression episode or subdiagnostic levels of
depressive symptoms that were insufficient to meet full criteria for a DSM - III - R affective diagnosis (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale score, ≥ 24).16 Teens who met the criteria for the subsyndromal group and agreed to participate were randomized to receive either the prevention
intervention program or usual care.
The effect of two school - based
intervention programs
on depressive symptoms in pre-adolescents.
Santos and colleagues (2013) conducted a systematic review of the literature
on positive psychological
interventions for depression and found that increasing resilience and coping resources was a common theme and that these
interventions caused significantly reduced remissions in
depressive symptoms.
In the present study, compliance with mood stabilizers mediated the effects of family
intervention on bipolar, manic
symptoms but not
depressive symptoms.
In addition,
interventions to prevent youth depression may benefit from a focus
on enhancing family understanding of youth depression, improving parenting skills, and also
on addressing parental
depressive symptoms that may affect the efficacy of
interventions targeting at - risk youth.
Although both
intervention conditions demonstrated significant improvements in
depressive symptoms and overall functioning, results indicate that IPT - AST has modest benefits over groups run by school counselors which were matched
on frequency and duration of sessions.
Influence of a family - focused substance use preventive
intervention on growth in adolescent
depressive symptoms.
Adolescents in high - parental expressed emotion families showed greater reductions in
depressive and manic
symptoms in FFT - A than in enhanced care, suggesting that parental expressed emotion moderates the impact of family
intervention on the symptomatic trajectory of adolescent bipolar disorder.
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This article examined the effects of Preparing for the Drug Free Years (PDFY)[now called Guiding Good Choices]
on self - reported adolescent
depressive symptoms 6 years after the PDFY
intervention was completed.
This study compared the effects of Ecologically Based Family Therapy (EBFT) with two individually based substance abuse
interventions, the Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA) and Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET),
on runaway adolescents» and their primary caregivers»
depressive symptoms.
Michelle Eskinazi and Clara Belessiotis write their debut elf blog
on a recent meta - analysis of smartphone ‐ based mental health
interventions for depression, which concludes that there is a possibly promising role for apps in the prevention and treatment of sub-clinical, mild and moderate
depressive symptoms.
We plan to: (a) identify high risk adolescents based
on elevated scores
on a screening measure of
depressive symptoms that is delivered in primary care; (b) recruit 400 (200 per site) of these at - risk adolescents to be randomized into either the CATCH - IT or the Educational group; and (c) assess outcomes at 2, 6, 12, 18 and 24 months post intake
on measures of
depressive symptoms,
depressive diagnoses, other mental disorders, and
on measures of role impairment in education, quality of life, attainment of educational milestones, and family functioning; and to examine predictors of
intervention response, and potential ethnic and cultural differences in
intervention response.
Parenting
intervention effects
on parental
depressive symptoms: examining the role of parenting and child behavior.
For example, adult anxiety disorders are common, often comorbid with depression, and associated with substantial functional impairment.17 A pediatric focus in research and practice
on the mother's mental health, and, in particular,
on maternal
depressive symptoms, may limit our understanding of how the mental health of both parents affects children and may narrow our approaches to
intervention.
Prevention of depression indicated by reduction in
depressive symptoms on pre-post-assessment (early
intervention) or reduction in onset of
depressive symptoms or disorder measured by depression scores
on a rating scales
Overall, this study identifies particular subgroups for whom
intervention programming is most beneficial and suggests targeting health risk behaviors of mothers to lessen the impact of maternal
depressive symptoms on offspring.