Development of a Predictive Index for Probable Depression Among Secondary School Students

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A 12-month longitudinal study will be conducted in secondary school settings. The investigators will investigate incidence of probable depression (i.e., from non-depression, CESD<16, at baseline to probable depression, CESD?16, at month 12) and remission of probable depression. The investigators wil...

A 12-month longitudinal study will be conducted in secondary school settings. The investigators will investigate incidence of probable depression (i.e., from non-depression, CESD<16, at baseline to probable depression, CESD?16, at month 12) and remission of probable depression. The investigators will investigate factors that can prospectively predict new cases/remission of probable depression, including both well-documented risk/protective factors and some under-examined but potentially important local factors (e.g. school/academic stress, psychological resilience). The relative importance of the risk/protective factors at different socio-ecological levels will be compared and their combined effect will be identified. Based on the selected factors, the investigators will derive a new prediction index called the Adolescent Depression Prediction Index (ADPI) in a model building sample and test its performance in predicting incidence of depression in a validation sample among secondary school students in Hong Kong.

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