The beyondblue schools research initiative: A two-year follow-up.

据澳大利亚全国儿童和青少年心理健康调查估计，儿童和青少年中抑郁障碍的患病率为3.7%。这意味着，在任何一个时间点，大约有13.8万名澳大利亚儿童和青少年正在经历抑郁障碍。此外，全国调查发现，不到一半(46%)的抑郁症患者在调查前6个月内接受过任何帮助，只有8%的人去心理健康诊所，只有4%的人去医院的精神科。这些发现强调了寻找替代方法来帮助大量没有得到专业服务帮助的患有抑郁症的年轻人的重要性。这项申请寻求资金，以评估BeyondBlue School Research Initiative。该倡议的主要特点是在卫生和教育部门之间发展强有力的伙伴关系，并注重个人一级和学校一级的风险因素。这使得我们能够提供比之前的研究更长的干预持续时间，在澳大利亚几个不同的州测试干预措施，并利用基础广泛的干预措施，其中包括一系列方法，每一种方法都有可能帮助减轻青少年抑郁症。该项目的意义在于它有可能确定可以降低青少年抑郁症发病率的有效干预措施，以及我们在教育和卫生部门建立的持续研究伙伴关系的质量。我们预计，这一伙伴关系将用于这一领域正在进行的研究。

The prevalence of Depressive Disorders among children and adolescents was estimated in the Australian National Child and Adolescent Mental Health Survey to be 3.7%. This means that at any single point of time, approximately 138,000 Australian children and adolescents are experiencing a Depressive Disorder. Furthermore, the National Survey found that less than half (46%) of those with a Depressive Disorder received any help over a 6 month period prior to the survey, with only 8% attending a mental health clinic, and only 4% attending a hospital-based Department of Psychiatry. These findings emphasise the importance of finding alternative approaches to help the large number of young people with depression who do not receive help from professional services. This application seeks funding to evaluate the beyondblue Schools Research Initiative. The key features of the initiative are the development of a strong partnership between the health and education sectors and a focus on both individual-level and school-level risk factors. This has enabled us to provide a much longer duration of intervention than previous studies, to test the intervention in several different Australian States, and to utilise a broadly based intervention that includes a range of approaches, each of which have the potential to help reduce adolescent depression. The significance of the project lies in its potential to identify effective interventions which can reduce rates of depression experienced by adolescents, and the quality of the ongoing research partnership we have established across the education and health sectors. We anticipate that this partnership will be utilised for ongoing research in this area.