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Register:	ISRCTN
Last refreshed on:	6 July 2015
Main ID:	ISRCTN28974509
Date of registration:	14/04/2015
Prospective Registration:	No
Primary sponsor:	Kristianstad University
Public title:	Evaluation of a school-based mental health program
Scientific title:	Preventing mental disorders in adolescents with school based systematic interventions: an effectiveness study in a school setting
Date of first enrolment:	01/09/2012
Target sample size:	1500
Recruitment status:	Completed
URL:	http://isrctn.com/ISRCTN28974509
Study type:	Interventional
Study design:	Quasi-experimental longitudinal design (Prevention)
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Countries of recruitment
Sweden

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Affiliation:

Name:	Pernilla Garmy
Address:	Kristianstad University 291 88 Kristianstad Sweden
Telephone:	+46 (0) 44 208589
Email:	pernilla.garmy@hkr.se
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Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. At baseline the participants are students in grade 8 (aged ~14)
Exclusion criteria: No exclusion criteria

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Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Depression
Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Depression

Intervention(s)

School based DISA-program (a cognitive behavioral, manual based, program)

Primary Outcome(s)

Depressive symptoms and health related quality of life:
1. Survey at three time-points: baseline, 3 and 12 months, with follow-up at 2, 3, and 4 years. Survey questionnaires concern depression, anxiety, sleep, salutogenic health and quality of life (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS) and EQ-5D™, Salutogenic Health Indicator Scale (SHIS), Insomnia Severity Index, respectively) and are distributed to 300 adolescents belonging to the intervention group, and to 300 belonging to the control group
1.1 Aim: investigate whether DISA is effective in preventing depression in adolescents
2. Focus group interviews with those leading the sessions and with the adolescents participating in them
2.1 Aim: to determine how both those leading the sessions and the adolescents participating in them viewed DISA
3. Interviews with the adolescents
3.1 Aim: learn how the adolescents experienced their participation in DISA
4. Health economic evaluation
4.1 Aim: study the cost effectiveness of DISA

Secondary Outcome(s)

1. Feasibility and cost-effectiveness

Secondary ID(s)

N/A

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Kristianstad University

Secondary Sponsor(s)

Ethics review

Results

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