A novel intervention targeting insomnia to prevent Major Depressive Disorder in the community

在这个项目中，我们想看看我们是否可以通过改善失眠来预防抑郁症。我们将邀请抑郁症状加重的人进行一项新的自助计划，以减少失眠，然后看看他们患临床抑郁症的风险是否在9个月和18个月后降低。据我们所知，这种方法以前没有尝试过。该项目的优点是，我们有切实的症状（睡眠问题），使个人参与预防战略。

In this project we want to see if we can prevent depression by improving insomnia. We will invite people with elevated depression symptoms to undertake a novel self help program to reduce insomnia, and then see if their risk for developing clinical depression is reduced 9 and 18 months later. As far as we know, this approach has not previously been tried. The merit of the project is that we have tangible symptoms (sleep problems) with which to engage individuals in a prevention strategy.