An internet-based adolescent depression preventive intervention: study protocol for a randomized control trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The high prevalence of major depressive disorder in adolescents and the low rate of successful treatment highlight a pressing need for accessible, affordable adolescent depression prevention programs. The Internet offers opportunities to provide adolescents with high quality, evidence-based programs without burdening or creating new care delivery systems. Internet-based interventions hold promise, but further research is needed to explore the efficacy of these approaches and ways of integrating emerging technologies for behavioral health into the primary care system.

Methods/design

We developed a primary care Internet-based depression prevention intervention, Competent Adulthood Transition with Cognitive Behavioral Humanistic and Interpersonal Training (CATCH-IT),

SUBMITTER: Gladstone TG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4418055 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature