Self-help for depressive symptoms: Finding messages suitable for population-wide promotion

社区成员经常使用自助方法来减轻抑郁症的症状。在某些情况下，这些可能是有效的，但在其他情况下，它们可能弊大于利（例如用尼古丁或酒精自我药疗）。该项目的目的是找出哪些自助方法最有可能是有益的，并易于为社区使用。这些方法可以在教育活动中推广，以改善人们科普抑郁症症状的方式。如果人们能够采取行动来降低轻度抑郁水平，这可能会阻止他们发展为需要专业治疗的临床疾病。

Members of the community often use self-help methods to reduce symptoms of depression. In some cases, these may be effective, but in others they may do more harm than good (e.g. self-medication with nicotine or alcohol). The project aims to find out which self-help methods are most likely to be helpful and are easy for the community to use. These methods can then be promoted in educational campaigns to improve how people cope with symptoms of depression. If people can take action to reduce milder levels of depression, this may prevent them from progressing to develop a clinical disorder that needs professional treatment.