A non-randomised pragmatic trial of a school-based group cognitive-behavioural programme for preventing depression in girls. Issue 1 (1st January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zetterström Dahlqvist, Heléne; Landstedt, Evelina; Almqvist, Ylva B; Gillander Gådin, Katja
• Is Part Of: International journal of circumpolar health. Volume 76:Issue 1(2017)
• Publication Date: 2017-01-01
• Subjects: School -- depressive symptoms -- real-life setting -- pragmatic trial -- cognitive-behavioural -- sexual harassment; Arctic medicine -- Periodicals; Circumpolar medicine -- Periodicals; Médecine arctique -- Périodiques; Médecine polaire -- Périodiques; Arctic medicine; Circumpolar medicine; Gezondheid; Noordpoolgebied; Cold Climate; Medicine; Antarctic Regions; Arctic Regions; Periodicals; 616.9881
• DOI: 10.1080/22423982.2017.1396146
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1239-9736

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the DISA-programme in preventing depressive symptoms (DS) in adolescent girls, as implemented in a real-world school setting, accounting for baseline socioeconomic and psychosocial factors, and to investigate whether the effects of these baseline variables on DS differed between intervention participants and non-participants. In this non-randomised pragmatic trial, an electronic questionnaire was disseminated in 2011 (baseline) and 2012 (follow-up) in schools in one municipality in northern Sweden. Pupils (total n =275; intervention participants identified in the questionnaire: n =53; non-participants: n =222) were 14–15 years old at baseline. The groups were compared by means of SEM. DISA could not predict differences in DS at follow-up in this real-life setting. In the overall sample, sexual harassment victimisation (SH) at baseline was associated with DS at follow-up and the estimate for SH increased in the DISA-participants compared to the overall sample.