School-based prevention programs for depression and anxiety in adolescence: a systematic review
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School-based interventions are considered a promising effort to prevent the occurrence of mental disorders in adolescents. This systematic review focuses on school-based prevention interventions on depression and anxiety disorders utilizing an RCT design, starting from the year 2000. Based on an online search (PubMed, Scirus, OVID, ISI) and bibliographic findings in the eligible articles, 28 studies providing information were reviewed. The search process ended on 2 May 2011. The majority of interventions turn out to be effective, both for depression (65%) and anxiety (73%). However, the obtained overall mean effect sizes calculated from the most utilized questionnaires can be considered rather small (CDI: -0.12; RCMAS: -0.29). The majority of the reviewed school-based interventions shows effectiveness in reducing or preventing mental disorders in adolescents. However, effect size computation revealed only small-scale effectiveness. Future studies have to consider the impact of program implementation variations.
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Previous research demonstrates higher levels of effectiveness for targeted compared to universal school-based interventions.
“This finding aligns with previous research that demon strates higher levels of effectiveness for targeted compared to universal school-based interventions (Corrieri et al., 2014; Feiss et al., 2019; Werner-Seidler et al., 2017).”
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The Overview and RCMAS sections report that an indicated anxiety program was more effective than universal programs at long-term follow-up. But the Distribution of effect sizes section reports no overall difference between universal and indicated programs for depression. The source therefore supports a narrower finding, not the general claim that targeted school-based interventions are more effective. (LLM, conf=0.88)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredStigma toward people with depression among health workers is associated with low rates of depression recognition or poor quality of care.
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- Authors
- Corrieri, S., Heider, D., Conrad, I., Blume, A., Konig, H.-H., & Riedel-Heller, S. G.
- Affiliations
- Leipzig University (DE)
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Corrieri, S.
- Venue
- Health Promotion International
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2013-02-01
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 427-441
- ISSN
- 0957-4824 (ISSN-L)
- 1460-2245
- OpenAlex
- W2145172829
- Cited by
- 159
- References
- 48
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- FWCI
- 1.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Health Promotion International (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- European Social Fund
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Speech and Hearing › School Health and Nursing Education
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Keywords
- school-based prevention, adolescent depression, adolescent anxiety, mental health prevention, intervention effectiveness, effect size
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Psychology, Adolescent, Anxiety, Depression, Humans, Surveys and Questionnaires, School Health Services
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