Citation

Brent DA. J. Adolesc. Health 2016; 58(3): 249-250.

Affiliation

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jadohealth.2015.12.004

PMID

26903424

Abstract

In this issue of the journal, in a longitudinal follow-up of depressed adolescents treated in the landmark Treatment of Adolescent Depression Study (TADS) randomized clinical trial, Peters et al. [1] report on the long-term trajectories of global functioning among youth relative to their initial randomization. The Survey of Outcomes following Treatment of Adolescent Depression (SOFTAD), with follow-up more than 5 years after the subjects entry into TADS, found that youth initially assigned to any active treatment continued to show improvement in functioning from baseline, whereas the functioning of those assigned to placebo continued to decline...

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