Clinical trial NCT02731053: Effectiveness Trial of the French Blues Indicated Depression Prevention Program
Official title: Pilot Effectiveness Trial of the French Blues Indicated Depression Prevention Program
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE4
Conditions: Depression
Keywords: Depression
Prevention
Adolescents
School
Effectiveness
Lead sponsor: Université de Montréal
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-04-07
Enrollment: 72
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 14
Maximum age (years): 18
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: 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.


Eligibility criteria: 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

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of participants who develop a major depressive episode as measured using the SCID diagnostic interview (posttest, 6 month follow-up)
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Change in depressive symptoms as measured using continuous SCID scores (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up)
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Change in depressive symptoms as measured using the CES-D questionnaire (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up)
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Change in depressive symptoms as measured using the PHQ-9 questionnaire (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up)
timeFrame: 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: 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)
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Change in anxiety symptoms as measured using the SCAS questionnaire (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up)
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Change in parent-child relationship as measured using a scale from the MASPAQ questionnaire (Leblanc, 1996) (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up)
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: 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)
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Change in substance use as measured using a scale from the MASPAQ questionnaire (Leblanc, 1996) (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up)
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Change in delinquent behaviors as measured using a scale from the MASPAQ questionnaire (Leblanc, 1996) (baseline, posttest, 6-month follow-up)
timeFrame: 6 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Montréal
country: Canada
facility: Université de Montréal
state: Quebec
Study officials:
affiliation: Université de Montréal
name: Frederic N Briere, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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