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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2010 Aug;48(8):821-5.
doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2010.05.005. Epub 2010 May 8.

Effects of an indicated cognitive-behavioral depression prevention program are similar for Asian American, Latino, and European American adolescents

Erica Marchand  1 , Janet Ng, Paul Rohde, Eric Stice
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Randomized Controlled Trial

Effects of an indicated cognitive-behavioral depression prevention program are similar for Asian American, Latino, and European American adolescents

Erica Marchand et al. Behav Res Ther. 2010 Aug.

Abstract

The authors tested whether a brief indicated cognitive-behavioral depression prevention program produced similar effects for Asian American, Latino, and European American adolescents (M age = 17.3, SD = 1.6) with elevated depressive symptoms using data from two randomized trials. The first trial involved 37 Asian-American/Pacific Islanders, 32 Latinos, and 98 European Americans and the second trial involved 61 Latinos and 72 European Americans. Reductions in depressive symptoms from pre- to post-intervention and from pre to 6-month follow-up for intervention participants versus assessment-only controls did not differ significantly for the various ethnic groups in either trial, despite sufficient power to detect clinically meaningful differences. These findings suggest that this indicated depression prevention intervention is similarly efficacious for Asian American, Latino and European American adolescents.

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