Long-Term Effects From a Randomized Trial of Two Public Health Preventive Interventions for Parental Depression

This article presents long-term effects of a randomized trial evaluating 2 standardized, manual-based prevention strategies for families with parental mood disorder: informational lectures and a brief, clinician-based approach including child assessment and a family meeting. A sample of 105 families...

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Published in:Journal of family psychology 2007-12, Vol.21 (4), p.703-713
Main Authors: Beardslee, William R, Wright, Ellen J, Gladstone, Tracy R. G, Forbes, Peter
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent Development
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Affective disorders
Behavior
Behavior modification
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child of Impaired Parents - education
Child of Impaired Parents - psychology
Depression
Emotional disorders
Family functioning
Family Health
Family Relations
Female
Human
Humans
Intervention
Interventions
Long term
Major Depression
Male
Medical sciences
Mental health
Middle Aged
Mood disorders
Mood Disorders - prevention & control
Mood Disorders - psychology
Parental Characteristics
Parental depression
Parents
Parents & parenting
Parents - education
Parents - psychology
Patient Education as Topic - methods
Prevention
Prevention. Health policy. Planification
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Psychology, Child
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Regression Analysis
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Treatment Outcomes
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Summary:This article presents long-term effects of a randomized trial evaluating 2 standardized, manual-based prevention strategies for families with parental mood disorder: informational lectures and a brief, clinician-based approach including child assessment and a family meeting. A sample of 105 families, in which at least 1 parent suffered from a mood disorder and at least 1 nondepressed child was within the 8- to 15-year age range, was recruited. Parents and children were assessed separately at baseline and every 9 to 12 months thereafter on behavioral functioning, psychopathology, and response to intervention. Both interventions produced sustained effects through the 6th assessment point, approximately 4.5 years after enrollment, with relatively small sample loss of families (
ISSN:0893-3200
1939-1293
DOI:10.1037/0893-3200.21.4.703