Since major depressive episodes can be prevented, the health care system should provide routine access to depression-prevention interventions, just as patients receive standard vaccines, UCSF ...

Two free, brief, single-session online interventions reduced teenagers’ depressive symptoms and hopelessness and increased their ability to create and work towards goals, data showed.Depression ...

Compared with usual care, patients with rheumatologic conditions such as psoriatic arthritis and lupus had less psychological ...

Two behavioral intervention programs appeared to effectively reduce depression symptoms among a cohort of young breast cancer survivors, according to study results presented at the virtual San ...

Among adolescents with depression seen in primary care, a collaborative care intervention that included patient and parent engagement and education resulted in greater improvement in depressive ...

Standardized reporting of patient adherence and engagement among digital health interventions for depression offers more effective comparisons between digital health tools and populations.

Social support interventions designed to combat depression and improve quality of life among older adults show limited effectiveness, according to a comprehensive systematic review and meta ...

The findings suggest that using such digital mental health interventions may help treat depressive symptoms more effectively than standard care alone, as well as address treatment gaps in low- and ...

Lifestyle medicine interventions can mitigate lack of access to traditional mental health treatments. Adolescent depression is strongly associated with negative academic, employment, and health ...

Discover how high-intensity exercise offers small but meaningful improvements in depression, especially for older individuals ...

Could cognitive interventions be useful in treating depression? Date: December 18, 2017 Source: University of Bristol Summary: A new study has examined whether cognitive bias modification (CBM ...

Interventions which improve sleep, such as CBT-I (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia), are associated with improved depression. Treating depression likewise improves sleep quality.