Effectiveness of the workshop "Adolescent depression: What can schools do?"

Abstract

© 2015 Martínez, Espinosa, Zitko, Marín, Schilling, Schwerter and Rojas. Introduction: Adolescent depression is associated with serious consequences. School staff is in a unique position to screen and refer adolescents with depression in a timely manner, and can collaborate with healthcare teams to assist in the proper management of the disease. The objective of this paper is to describe the results of a workshop that aims to improve the knowledge of adolescent depression among school staff. Materials and methods: This was a single-arm trial with a pre-post design. Six workshops were conducted in four cities in Chile. Each workshop lasted 4 h. Participatory methodology was used. A 26-item knowledge questionnaire about adolescent depression, with the alternatives "I agree," "I disagree," and "I don't know," was administered to the participants, before and after the workshop. Results: A total of 152 people participated in the trial. Of these, 74.3% were female, and 44.7% were school psyc