{"id":2305,"date":"2018-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/16\/peer-to-peer-program-tied-to-improved-depression-awareness\/"},"modified":"2018-03-19T16:08:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T16:08:26","slug":"peer-to-peer-program-tied-to-improved-depression-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/16\/peer-to-peer-program-tied-to-improved-depression-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Peer-to-Peer Program Tied to Improved Depression Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>After program started at 10 high schools, students had improved knowledge, attitudes about depression<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, March 16, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A peer-to-peer depression awareness program is associated with improved knowledge and attitudes about depression among high school students, according to a study published online March 1 in <i>Psychiatric Services<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Sagar V. Parikh, M.D., from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and colleagues trained 121 students at 10 high schools to develop and implement peer-to-peer depression awareness campaigns. A total of 878 students at the schools completed questionnaires before and after implementation of the campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that after implementation of the campaigns, students had improved knowledge and attitudes toward depression, increased confidence in identifying and referring peers with depression, improved help-seeking intentions, and reduced stigma.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The peer-to-peer program increased depression literacy through the use of youth-designed and youth-implemented depression awareness and outreach activities, which may ultimately result in earlier detection of depression and in fewer depression sequelae,&#8221; the authors write.<\/p>\n<p>Two authors disclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ps.psychiatryonline.org\/doi\/full\/10.1176\/appi.ps.201700101 \" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text (subscription or payment may be required)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After program started at 10 high schools, students had improved knowledge, attitudes about depression<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}