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The prevention of anxiety and depression in children from disadvantaged schools
- Source :
- Behaviour Research and Therapy. 48:68-73
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2010.
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Abstract
- A randomised controlled trial evaluated the Aussie Optimism Program in preventing anxiety and depression. Grade 7 students (n = 496) from disadvantaged government schools in Perth Western Australia, participated. Six schools were randomly assigned to Aussie Optimism and six schools received their usual health education lessons. Students completed questionnaires on depression, anxiety, attribution style, and social skills. Parents completed the Child Behavior Checklist. No significant group effects were found for student-reported data. Parents of intervention group only students reported reductions in internalizing problems at post-test. No follow-up group effects were significant. Students and teachers found the program acceptable.
- Subjects :
- Male
Parents
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
media_common.quotation_subject
education
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Grammar school
Optimism
Social skills
Surveys and Questionnaires
medicine
Humans
Child
Social Behavior
Child Behavior Checklist
Psychiatry
Poverty
media_common
Analysis of Variance
Depressive Disorder
Schools
Australia
Anxiety Disorders
Faculty
Disadvantaged
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Anxiety
Female
Health education
medicine.symptom
Attribution
Psychology
Follow-Up Studies
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00057967
- Volume :
- 48
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Behaviour Research and Therapy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....94e4456e0646099d805cf28687ca70a4