At a glance
ClinicalIndex Comparison Record- ✓Adolescents aged 12-19 years
- ✓Screen positive for depression
- ✓Informed consent from participant (ages 16-19) or guardian consent plus participant assent (ages 12-15)
- ✓Attending one of the four study YFHS clinics
- ✕Unable to participate in treatment due to acute illness
- ✕Unable to communicate sufficiently in Portuguese to answer inclusion questions
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Pilot Implementation of Depression Screening and Treatment for Adolescents in Mozambican Primary Care
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Group Interpersonal Therapy for Adolescents (IPT-AG) and Treatment as Usual (TAU) for Depression and Adolescent Behavior. Completed, enrolled 95 participants across 4 sites.
Detailed Summary
This is a cluster-randomized pilot trial of depression screening and treatment implementation at four Youth-friendly Health Services (YFHS) in primary care clinics, two in Maputo City and two in Maputo Province. YFHS will be stratified by urbanicity, such that one YFHS in Maputo City and one YFHS in Maputo Province will be randomized to interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT)-A and the other YFHS in each location with be randomized to treatment as usual (TAU).
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
IPT-AG is a ten session, group therapy for adolescents. Each group contains 6-8 adolescents who attend weekly sessions together. The goals of IPT-AG are: 1) to reduce depression symptoms, and 2) to improve interpersonal relationships. Another aim of the group format is to increase adolescents' experience with positive social interactions and to reduce social isolation.
Adolescents will be administered unstructured psychotherapy in individual sessions with a trained mental health specialist (i.e., psychologist or psychiatric technician).