Depression in Children & Adolescents: Psychotherapy vs. Control
General Description
The depression-childadol-psyctr dataset is a meta-analytic research domain (MARD) which is part of the Metapsy project. The dataset contains study information and effect size data of randomized trials on psychological interventions for treating depression in children and adolescents.
This dataset includes psychological interventions vs. control (psy vs ctr) comparisons.
It includes one type of effect size calculation per study, giving priority to means and standard deviations at post-test.
The dataset follows the Metapsy data standard. Risk of bias ratings were conducted using the Cochrane Collaboration Risk of Bias Tool (Version 1).
Affiliated Institutions
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Online Meta-Analysis Tool
A simplified version of this database can be analyzed at metapsy.org/database/depression-childadol.
Metadata
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- License: ODC-By v1.0 ↗
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Variable Description
Study References
Database Flowchart
Studies in the depression-childadol-psyctr dataset were extracted from the larger “depression psychotherapy” database. The study flow of the database can be found below.
Further Information
- The full protocol of the METAPSY project ↗
- Definitions of types of psychotherapies that are included in the Metapsy depression domain ↗
- A paper summarizing main results of the Metapsy depression domain ↗
- A meta-analysis using the children and adolescents database ↗
- Published meta-analyses using the database ↗
- Published 'individual participant data' meta-analyses, based on the database ↗