Effectiveness Trial of the French Blues Indicated Depression Prevention Program

Université de Montréal72 enrolled

Overview

The purpose of this pilot study is to test the effectiveness of French adaptation of the Blues program, a school-based indicated depression prevention intervention. The program will be delivered by the endogenous psycho-social staff of 3 Montreal secondary schools to adolescents with sub-clinical depressive symptoms and compared to a no-intervention (Informational Brochure only) control condition, designed to represent the "usual intervention" in these schools.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

DOUBLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Depression

Interventions

Blues programBEHAVIORAL

Participants will attend 6 weekly 1-hour sessions of group cognitive-behavioral therapy administered by school staff, and will do home practice between sessions and after the program individually using a web site (called the Blues App)

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 14 YearsMax age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Elevated depressive symptoms (score of 20 or above on the Center for Epidemiological Studies - Depression screening questionnaire) Exclusion Criteria: * Current major depression diagnosis * Current active suicidal behaviors * Being in a special school curriculum for academic or behavioral problems

Locations (1)

Université de Montréal

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Number of participants who develop a major depressive episode as measured using the SCID diagnostic interview (posttest, 6 month follow-up)

Time frame: 6 months

Change in depressive symptoms as measured using continuous SCID scores (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up)

Time frame: 6 months

Change in depressive symptoms as measured using the CES-D questionnaire (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up)

Time frame: 6 months

Change in depressive symptoms as measured using the PHQ-9 questionnaire (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up)

Time frame: 6 months

Secondary Outcomes

Change in social adjustment as measured using "Évaluation sociale de Soi chez les jeunes adultes" questionnaire (Michaud et al., 2006) (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up)

Time frame: 6 months

Change in anxiety symptoms as measured using the SCAS questionnaire (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up)

Time frame: 6 months

Change in parent-child relationship as measured using a scale from the MASPAQ questionnaire (Leblanc, 1996) (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up)

Time frame: 6 months

Change in affective school engagement as measured using a subscale of the school engagement questionnaire (Archambault et al., 2009) (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up)

Time frame: 6 months

Change in substance use as measured using a scale from the MASPAQ questionnaire (Leblanc, 1996) (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up)

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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