Randomized controlled trial of family-focused treatment for child depression compared to individual psychotherapy: one-year outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Childhood-onset depression is associated with increased risk of recurrent depression and high morbidity extending into adolescence and adulthood. This multisite randomized controlled trial evaluated two active psychosocial treatments for childhood depression: family-focused treatment for childhood depression (FFT-CD) and individual supportive psychotherapy (IP). Aims were to describe effects through 52 weeks postrandomization on measures of depression, functioning, nondepressive symptoms, and harm events.

Methods

Children meeting criteria for depressive disorders (N = 134) were randomly assigned to 15 sessions of FFT-CD or IP and evaluated at mid-treatment for depressive symptoms and fully at roughly 16 weeks (after acute treatment), 32 weeks, and 52 weeks/one year

SUBMITTER: Asarnow JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7242159 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature