Karami 2012.
| Methods | Design: RCT Conducted by the team who developed the intervention: unclear |
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| Participants | Description: targeted Cut‐point for inclusion for indicated studies: those children that were reported to be "depressed". No cut‐point specified, however. What risk was basis of inclusion for selected studies: parental divorce Diagnostic interview to exclude those with current or previous depression: not undertaken. Unclear whether those with current and/or past episodes of depression were excluded. Baseline severity of depression: unclear as means and SDs on CDI at baseline not specified Mean age: 12.0 Age range: 10 to 13 Percentage male: not specified Setting: school State what psychiatric diagnoses were excluded: exclusion criteria not specified Suicide risk excluded: exclusion criteria not specified Parents with history of schizophrenia/bipolar disorder excluded: exclusion criteria not specified Country: Islamic Republic of Iran |
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| Interventions | Broad category: CBT (for further information on intervention components, see Table 3) Manualised: unclear Online: no Name of programme: not specified Number of sessions: 8 sessions Length of sessions: 60 minutes Intensity (total number of hours): 8 hours Duration of treatment period: 12 weeks Group size: unclear Delivered by: not specified Fidelity: not assessed Type of comparison: unclear; presumably TAU comprising usual care from the welfare centre |
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| Outcomes | Diagnosis: (no useable data) Name of self‐report depression measure: (no useable data) Name of clinical report depression measure: (no useable data) Name of anxiety measure: (no useable data) Name of general functioning measure: (no useable data) Assessment points: N/A |
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| Notes | Author contacted for methodological detail: yes (not provided) Author contacted for treatment manual: yes (not provided) Author contacted for outcome data: yes (not provided) |
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| Risk of bias | ||
| Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Unclear risk | "...randomly assigned..." (p.78) Method of randomisation not specified, however |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Unclear risk | No information specified |
| Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) Subjects | Unclear risk | No information specified |
| Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) Assessors | Unclear risk | All outcomes self‐reported. Assessor blinding therefore not applicable. |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | Unclear risk | Proportion of participants with incomplete post‐intervention self‐reported depression scores: unclear as numbers of participants included in final analyses not specified Means and SDs used in meta‐analysis based on what data: unclear Intention‐to‐treat analyses: unclear if undertaken |
| Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Unclear risk | Protocol not available |
| Other bias | Unclear risk | Unclear if trial undertaken by those that developed the intervention |
| Implementation integrity | Unclear risk | Implementation integrity assessed: unclear if assessed Implementation integrity adequate: N/A Implementation integrity reported: N/A |