Indicated preventive interventions for depression in Children and Adolescents: A meta-analysis

Preventive physiotherapy interventions for back care in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis

BACKGROUND Preventive interventions improve healthy behaviours and they also increase knowledge regarding back care in children and adolescents, but studies exhibit great variability in their contents, duration and number of sessions, and in the assessment methods. The purpose of this study was to review the empirical evidence regarding preventive physiotherapy interventions for back care in ch...

A meta-analysis of interventions for bereaved children and adolescents.

The main objective of this review was to provide a quantitative and methodologically sound evaluation of existing treatments for bereavement and grief reactions in children and adolescents. Two meta-analyses were conducted: 1 on controlled studies and 1 on uncontrolled studies. The 2 meta-analyses were based on a total of 27 treatment studies published before June 2006. Hedges's g and Cohen's d...

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Do indicated preventive interventions for depression represent good value for money?

OBJECTIVE The prevention of depression is of growing interest to researchers and policy makers. However, the question of whether interventions designed to prevent depression provide value for money at a population level remains largely unanswered. The current study assesses the cost-effectiveness of two indicated interventions designed to prevent depression: a brief psychological intervention b...

Preventive interventions for children of parents with depression: international perspectives.

MJA Open 2012 molecular genetics) offer great promise for the future.9-11 • Parent–child interactions and parenting style have received significant attention as key factors in the transmission of depression risk from parent to child.12 Psychiatric treatment for parents as well as support for parenting can reduce the risk for children.13,14 • Although children of depressed parents are at increas...