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From Prototype to Product: Development of a Primary Care/Internet Based Depression Prevention Intervention for Adolescents (CATCH-IT)

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We describe the prototype to product development process of a low cost, socio-culturally relevant, easily implemented Internet-based depression prevention intervention for adolescents in primary care. The intervention named “Project CATCH-IT” (Competent Adulthood Transition with Cognitive-behavioral, Humanistic and Interpersonal Training) includes an initial motivational interview in primary care to engage the adolescent, fourteen Web-based modules based on behavioral activation, cognitive behavioral and interpersonal psychotherapy which target known risk factors, and a follow-up motivational interview in primary care. This was successfully fielded in a pilot study with 25 adolescents. We know of no other similar interventions developed for the prevention of depression in youth that is potentially universally available at low cost and that utilizes existing systems of healthcare providers.

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Acknowledgments

Supported by a NARSAD Young Investigator Award, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Depression in Primary Care Value Grant and a career development award from the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH K-08 MH 072918-01A2).

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  1. Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Blvd, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    Josephine Landback, Micah Prochaska, Justin Ellis, Karoline Dmochowska & Benjamin W. Van Voorhees

  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Benjamin W. Van Voorhees

  3. Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Benjamin W. Van Voorhees

  4. Department of Psychology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA

    John Larson

  5. Department of Psychiatry, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

    Jackie Gollan & Mark Reinecke

  6. Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Carl Bell

  7. Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Scott Stuart

  8. Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA

    Tracy Gladstone

  9. Department of Mental Hygiene, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Sachiko A. Kuwabara

  10. Anderson Area Medical Center, Anderson, SC, USA

    Nathan Bradford

  11. Department of Economics, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Joshua Fogel

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Landback, J., Prochaska, M., Ellis, J. et al. From Prototype to Product: Development of a Primary Care/Internet Based Depression Prevention Intervention for Adolescents (CATCH-IT). Community Ment Health J 45, 349–354 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-009-9226-3

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