Citation

Rasing SPA, Creemers DHM, Vermulst AA, Janssens JMAM, Engels RCME, Scholte RHJ. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2018; 15(7): e15071457.

Affiliation

Praktikon, P.O. Box 6909, 6503 GK Nijmegen, The Netherlands. r.scholte@bsi.ru.nl.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, MDPI: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)

DOI

10.3390/ijerph15071457

PMID

29996542

Abstract

A randomized controlled trail was conducted to examine the effectiveness of a depression and anxiety prevention program ‘Een Sprong Vooruit’ (A Leap Forward) among adolescent girls with a high familial risk (N = 142). The results showed neither effects of the prevention program directly after the intervention, nor at 6 or 12 months follow-up on depression and anxiety symptoms. Further, latent growth curve modeling (LGCM) was used to examine whether the growth functions for the intervention and the control condition were different. The slope representing the change in depression symptoms was not significantly different between the intervention and the control condition. For anxiety symptoms, the difference between slopes was also not significant. Based on these results, we suggested that these high-risk adolescent girls might benefit more from a more intensive prevention program.

Language: en

Keywords

adolescents; anxiety; depression; parental psychopathology; prevention; randomized controlled trial