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The effectiveness of a school-based adolescent depression education program.

Karen L Swartz¹, Elizabeth A Kastelic, Sally G Hess

¹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287-7381, USA. kswartz@jhmi.edu

Health Education & Behavior : the Official Publication of the Society for Public Health Education

|July 27, 2007

Summary

The Adolescent Depression Awareness Program (ADAP) significantly improved high school students' knowledge about depression. This school-based curriculum tripled the number of students scoring 80% or higher on depression knowledge assessments.

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Area of Science:

Public Health
Adolescent Psychology
Medical Education

Background:

School-based suicide prevention programs are common interventions for adolescents.
Depression education in schools may reduce adolescent depression's morbidity, mortality, and stigma.
The Adolescent Depression Awareness Program (ADAP) created a 3-hour curriculum on depression for high schoolers.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the effectiveness of the ADAP curriculum in enhancing high school students' knowledge of depression.
To assess the impact of targeted depression education on adolescent mental health literacy.

Main Methods:

A pretest-posttest study design was employed.
3,538 high school students completed a depression knowledge assessment before and after the ADAP curriculum.
Data were collected between 2001 and 2005.

Main Results:

The number of students scoring 80% or higher on the assessment significantly increased post-curriculum.
Student scores improved from 701 to 2,180, more than tripling the number of students with high knowledge.
The ADAP curriculum demonstrated a positive impact on depression knowledge acquisition.

Conclusions:

The ADAP curriculum is effective in improving adolescent knowledge about depression.
Further research is needed to confirm if enhanced knowledge leads to increased help-seeking behaviors.
Replication studies are recommended to validate these findings.