The prevention of depressive symptoms in rural Australian women

Day, Christine; Kane, Robert; Roberts, Clare

doi:10.1002/casp.703

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“…Recent research has explored the efficacy of teaching new and different coping strategies to at‐risk populations to decrease depression, with reported success (Day, Kane, & Roberts, ). In the current study, 10% of the sample presented with significant symptoms of PTSD by scoring over the cut‐off on the PCL‐C.…”

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Trauma exposure and post‐traumatic stress disorder within fire and emergency services in Western Australia

Skeffington

Rees

Mazzucchelli

2017

Australian Journal of Psychology

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Objective: While it is widely accepted that fire and emergency work is of high risk for potentially traumatic event exposure and post-trauma pathology, there has been limited published data regarding Australian fire and emergency service workers. The relationship between trauma exposure and mental health outcomes, in particular the significance of social support and coping style was explored. Method: Participants were 210 Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) career firefighters in Western Australia (WA). This study employed a cross-sectional, correlational design, with a combination of self-selection and random sampling. Results: Results found that DFES career members were exposed to trauma at significantly higher rates than the general population and reported elevated rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology. Trauma exposure, social support, and coping style significantly contributed to variation in PTSD symptomatology, with maladaptive coping strategies accounting for more PTSD variance than adaptive coping. Conclusions: Elevated rates of PTSD identify WA DFES members as a high risk population. There was evidence that trauma exposure, social support, and coping style significantly contributed to levels of PTSD symptomatology. Maladaptive coping strategies, such as distraction, substance use, venting and self-blame, accounted for more variance in PTSD symptomatology than adaptive coping strategies, indicating that prevention or treatment interventions may be most effective by targeting reduction of maladaptive coping strategies, with a secondary focus on building adaptive coping strategies.

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Trauma exposure and post‐traumatic stress disorder within fire and emergency services in Western Australia

Skeffington

Rees

Mazzucchelli

2017

Australian Journal of Psychology

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“…For instance, acceptance is likely to be important in interventions of youth whose parents experience depression. Regarding active coping, some programs targeted at resolving specific problems have yielded promising results in adult samples (e.g., Day, Kane, & Roberts, 2003;Vinokur et al, 2000). It may be that these kinds of practical, goal-focused approaches to problem solving (e.g., developing action plans to make specific life changes, job search skills) are more effective than are general problem-solving skills (e.g., Spence et al, 2003).…”

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Prevention of depression in youth: A qualitative review and future suggestions

Sutton

2007

Clinical Psychology Review

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Since 1990, significant efforts have been made towards developing interventions to prevent depression in youth. Meta-analyses of preventive interventions have consistently yielded small but significant effect sizes in the short-term prevention of depression. However, the maintenance of intervention effects over extended follow-ups ranging from 6 months to 3 years has not been consistently demonstrated. In this qualitative review, significant methodological issues that continue to be of concern are discussed. Illustrative studies are described to highlight the accomplishments and limitations of interventions to date. Particular areas in need of attention include the implementation of booster sessions, use of appropriate statistical analyses, examination of multiple outcome variables, augmentation of protective factors, and exploration of mediators and moderators of intervention effects. Future directions for the field of depression prevention are outlined.

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Treatment and Prevention of Depression and Anxiety in Youth: Test of Cross-Over Effects

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Anxiety and depression are highly comorbid and share several common etiological processes. Therefore, it may be more efficient to develop interventions that treat or prevent these problems together rather than as separate entities. The present meta-analytic review examined whether interventions for children and adolescents that explicitly targeted either anxiety or depression showed treatment specificity or also impacted the other outcome (i.e., cross-over effects). We addressed this question both within the same type of study (i.e., treatment, prevention) and across study types. Only randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that assessed both constructs with dimensional measures were included in this review. For treatment studies, RCTs targeting anxiety (n=18) showed significant effects on both anxious and depressive symptoms, although more strongly on anxiety than depression; similarly, RCTs treating depression (n=9) yielded significant effects on both depressive and anxious symptoms, but stronger effects on depression than anxiety. Thus, there were cross-over effects in treatments purportedly targeting either anxiety or depression, and also treatment specificity, such that larger effects were seen for the target problem at which the treatment was aimed. Anxiety prevention studies (n=14) significantly affected anxious, but not depressive symptoms, indicating no cross-over effect of anxiety prevention trials on depression. For depression prevention studies (n=15), the effects were not significant for either depressive or anxiety symptoms, although the effect was significantly larger for depressive than for anxious symptoms. Post-hoc analyses revealed that the effect on depressive symptoms was significant in depression preventions trials of targeted but not universal samples. Implications for transdiagnostic interventions are discussed.

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The prevention of depressive symptoms in rural Australian women

Cited by 7 publications

References 24 publications

Trauma exposure and post‐traumatic stress disorder within fire and emergency services in Western Australia

Trauma exposure and post‐traumatic stress disorder within fire and emergency services in Western Australia

Prevention of depression in youth: A qualitative review and future suggestions

Treatment and Prevention of Depression and Anxiety in Youth: Test of Cross-Over Effects

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