TY - JOUR
T1 - Depressive symptoms over first grade and their response to a developmental epidemiologically based preventive trial aimed at improving achievement
AU - Kellam, Sheppard G.
AU - Rebok, George W.
AU - Mayer, Lawrence S.
AU - Ialongo, Nick
AU - Kalodner, Cynthia R.
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - This article is about the course of depressive symptoms during a classroom-based randomized preventive field trial aimed at improving reading achievement among first-grade children in an urban population of mixed ethnicity and lower middle to low socioeconomic status. In the fall, children reported high levels of depressive symptoms, a risk factor for major depressive disorder. There was a linear relationship in the fall between depressive symptoms and achievement test scores. Among male children in intervention classrooms whose gain in achievement was at least the national average, depression from fall to spring was decreased, compared to those whose achievement gain was lower. Among female children both in the control and in the intervention classrooms, there was also a significant relationship between gain in achievement and the course of depression.
AB - This article is about the course of depressive symptoms during a classroom-based randomized preventive field trial aimed at improving reading achievement among first-grade children in an urban population of mixed ethnicity and lower middle to low socioeconomic status. In the fall, children reported high levels of depressive symptoms, a risk factor for major depressive disorder. There was a linear relationship in the fall between depressive symptoms and achievement test scores. Among male children in intervention classrooms whose gain in achievement was at least the national average, depression from fall to spring was decreased, compared to those whose achievement gain was lower. Among female children both in the control and in the intervention classrooms, there was also a significant relationship between gain in achievement and the course of depression.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0954579400006052
DO - 10.1017/S0954579400006052
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84974083175
SN - 0954-5794
VL - 6
SP - 463
EP - 481
JO - Development and Psychopathology
JF - Development and Psychopathology
IS - 3
ER -