Mixed Method Interventions for Depression in University Settings

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Mixed method interventions for depression in university student population

Refining the search

Two searches were performed, one in multisubject databases via the Research Pro tool from the University of Warwick library using the keywords: intervention, (student OR university) and depression.

If more than 100 papers retrieved, only look at the first 100 from each database. Results retrieved by each of the databases and number of relevant papers identified are show below:

·  Article FirstDone (1 of 1) – 1 relevant (Field et al., 2006);

·  Ebsco EJSDone (0 of 0);

·  Electronic Collections OnlineDone (22 of 22) – 1 found relevant (Merritt et al., 2007), other not research, not intervention, not depression or not college students; 1 – no access (Christensen et al., 2003).

·  FactivaDone (100 of 9954) – 0 relevant, most commentaries, the few research papers were not addressing depression or not higher educations settings;

·  Ingenta ConnectDone (0 of 0);

·  JSTORDone (100 of 6277) – 0 relevant, 1 on anxiety and depression on law students, but not intervention, more papers on economic depression and political sciences, no intervention identified.

·  Project MuseDone (100 of 513) – 0 relevant; Several papers on intervention for higher education students but for anxiety or students with emotional and behavioural difficulties (but school and not depression) – most exploratory, not interventions ;

·  Science DirectDone (100 of 2360) – 0 relevant, most exploratory or interventions for smoke cessation and substance use;

·  Web of KnowledgeDone (100 of 425) - 2 relevant (Gawrysiak et al., 2009; (Alvarez et al., 2008) – a computer based intervention for students with cognitive impairment suffering from depression; 1 no access Hamdan-Mansour et al., (2009) – no access to issues in mental health nursing;

A total of four papers (Gawrysiak et al., 2009; Alvarez et al., 2008; Merritt et al., 2007; Field et al., 2006) were found relevant interventions and 2 could not be accessed (Hamdan-Mansour et al., 2009; Christensen et al., 2003).

The second search was performed in Ovid Medline (databases including Medline, Embase, CINAHL) a search using: depression and (intervention OR trial) and (“college student$” or “university student$”).

A total of 84 papers were retrieved, 5 found relevant (Geisner et al., 2006; Hamamci et al., 2006; Geisner et al., 2007; Eskin et al., 2008; Cukcrowicz et al., 2009), 3 potentially relevant papers could not be accessed (Yang & Liu, 2007; Wang et al., 2006; Zeng & Ji, 2005); 1 review in Japanese (Yamaguchi et al., 1994) and 1 doctoral dissertation (Forsyth, 2001). The excluded papers were either not interventions or were different samples (e.g. psychiatric patients, community samples)

Five further papers were identified from reviews and meta-analysis of interventions for depression in children and young people (Seligman et al., 1999; Pace & Dixon, 1993; Hogg & Deffenbacker, 1988; McNamara et al., 1986; Taylor & Marshall, 1977).

A total of 15 relevant interventions were identified.

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