Saetre, Oda Charlotte Larsen creator Keles, Searp text Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2024 monographic eng

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p. 574-587 We investigated changes in youths’ intentions to quit school after following a group-based cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) based intervention for depressed adolescents in upper secondary school: the Adolescent Coping with Depression Course (ACDC). Data were collected from 228 youths, 133 of whom received the 14-week ACDC intervention and 95 who received usual care (UC). Structural equation models showed that symptoms of depression at post-test positively predicted intention to quit school at six-month follow-up after the intervention ended (β = .291, p < .001). Furthermore, ACDC, which showed a decrease in depressive symptoms post-test, had an indirect effect on adolescents’ intention to quit school at six-month follow-up (indirect β = −0.117 p = .018). Hence, targeting depression and implementing effective preventive programmes may prevent dropout from upper secondary school. Such interventions should thus be investigated in future studies. Cluster RCT https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00313831.2023.2175242 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00313831.2023.2175242 250110 20250110163235.0